Glove: Use for safety or overuse?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.08.029
Abstract: Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids presents a major safety risk for bloodborne viruses to all health care workers (HCWs). In response to human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV), various strategies were adopted to reduce this… read more here.
Keywords: hand hygiene; use; use safety; glove use ... See more keywords
Modified glove use for contact precautions: Health care workers' perceptions and acceptance.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.01.009
Abstract: BACKGROUND Patients colonized or infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus are placed under contact precautions. Contact precautions require patients to be placed in single rooms and their health care workers (HCWs) to… read more here.
Keywords: glove use; hand hygiene; contact precautions; use ... See more keywords