Clean Hospitals Day 2023 and the launch of an environmental-hygiene self-assessment tool.

Lancet Infect Dis

Infection Control Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. Electronic address:

Published: October 2023

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