title: Do patients feel comfortable asking healthcare workers to wash their hands?
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ottum
authors.forename: Ajay K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sethi
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zerbel
authors.forename: Martha E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Gaines
authors.forename: Nasia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Safdar
mesh_terms: D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006235:Hand Disinfection / Q000592:standards*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011209:Power, Psychological; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires