hospitals will use alcohol-based hand rubs
November 2002
More and more hospitals will use alcohol-based hand rubs...now that U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommends them.
These are similar to Purell and other brands you see in stores.
CDC takes hand washing very seriously. It's the single most important thing to do to decrease nosocomial infections. But not enough people are doing it...and nosocomial infection rates are taking off.
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