Fictional hospital: a cheap hand-cleaning routine is followed by a large fall in infections in two wards, but nobody can explain why yet. No harmful effects are known. What should the hospital do next?

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Semmelweis advocated handwashing in 1847 and met resistance. This simplified hospital is fictional; its evidence is not his exact study.

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