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Study: Patient safety trumps personal safety for motivating hand washing

OSHA Healthcare Connection, September 6, 2011

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The best way to get healthcare workers to wash their hands is not to scare them about their own health but by reminding that hand washing helps others, according to a study to appear in Psychological Science.

Click here to read how the researchers came to this conclusion by using different hand hygiene messages.



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