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Variation in Health Care Worker Removal of Personal Protective Equipment

Overview
Journal Am J Infect Control
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2015 Jul 4
PMID 26138659
Citations 32
Authors
Caroline Zellmer
Sarah Van Hoof
Nasia Safdar
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Abstract

In the current era of emerging pathogens such as Ebola virus, removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) is crucial to reduce contamination of health care workers. However, current removal practices are not well described. We undertook a systematic evaluation of health care worker removal of PPE for contact isolation to examine variation in removal procedures. Findings indicate that under usual conditions, only about half of health care workers correctly remove their PPE, and very few remove their PPE in the correct order and dispose of it in the proper location.

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