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Surprising research results — which have been widely misinterpreted as evidence that hand hygiene has little impact on infection rates — more likely reveal that health care infections (HAIs) arise from complex causes and cannot be prevented by a single intervention, the author tells Hospital Infection Control.

Inconvenient study: Hand washing up, rates unfazed