Hand hygiene before gloving is an important component of infection control. Wearing gloves alone without proper hand hygiene poses major risks for patient safety and infection control. For example, a box of gloves touch by unwashed hands could become contaminated.
Researchers with the study documented over 175 hours of observation. Results from the observations showed hand hygiene compliance before gloving as 3 percent and 14 percent for physicians and nonphysicians, respectively, with no statistically significant difference between the groups. Although there was a high percent of glove use (more than 75 percent), hand hygiene before gloving was less than 5 percent for physicians and nonphysicians alike.
Read the study about hand hygiene before gloving.
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