Background Healthcare worker (HCW) hand hygiene compliance is key to patient safety;
however, compliance is suboptimal. Nevertheless hand hygiene compliance is not well studied …

ObjectiveTo better understand barriers and facilitators that contribute to antibiotic overuse in
long-term care and to use this information to inform an evidence and theory-informed …

Background: Antibiotic use in long-term care homes is highly variable. High rates of antibiotic
use are associated with antibiotic resistance and Clostridium difficile infection. We asked 2 …

Background Urine culturing practices are highly variable in long-term care and contribute to
overprescribing of antibiotics for presumed urinary tract infections. The purpose of this study …

In 2008, Clostridium difficile rates were increasing in Ontario, Canada, and in response,
hospitals were mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Health to publicly report their C difficile …

… The Woodbridge Lectures 2020 John MacFarlane … Modals,” Mind, cxvi (2007): 983–1026;
John MacFarlane, “Epistemic Modals Are Assessment Sensitive,” in Epistemic Modality, ed. …

Background Health care worker (HCW) hand hygiene is effective in reducing healthcare
associated infections, yet hand hygiene rates are suboptimal. Psychological theories of …

… MacFarlane, S. … MacFarlane …

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This thesis looks into the possibility that X radiation following inner shell ionization by electron
impact might be polarized. There has been some speculation on this point: one published …