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Impact of Replacing Powdered Gloves With Powder-free Gloves on Hand-hygiene Compliance Among Healthcare Workers of an Intensive Care Unit: a Quasi-experimental Study

2020-09-28

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background/Objective.</bold> After wearing powdered gloves, healthcare workers (HCW) are supposed to wash their hands instead of using alcohol-based hand-rub (ABHR). Washing hands takes longer than using ABHR, and the use of powdered gloves may be an obstacle to hand-hygiene compliance. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of replacing powdered gloves with powder-free gloves on...

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Infection Control in Healthcare

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Literature Corpus work: 3ee995d1-0085-5b05-8961-aeae1650335f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-81396/v1

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