O003: the misuse of clinical gloves: risk of cross-infection and factors influencing the decision of healthcare workers to wear gloves

Wilson, Jennie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4713-9662, Lynam, Siobhan, Singleton, Julie and Loveday, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-8149 (2013) O003: the misuse of clinical gloves: risk of cross-infection and factors influencing the decision of healthcare workers to wear gloves. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2 (1). p. 3. ISSN 2047-2994

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Abstract

Clinical gloves are routinely used in the delivery of patient care but unless integrated with the ‘5 moments of hand hygiene’ have the potential to increase the risk of HCAI transmission.

Item Type: Article
Identifier: 10.1186/2047-2994-2-S1-O3
Additional Information: © 2013 Wilson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subjects: Medicine and health > Health promotion and public health
Medicine and health > Health promotion and public health > Infection prevention
Medicine and health
Depositing User: Jennie Wilson
Date Deposited: 18 May 2017 11:56
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2024 15:52
URI: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3336

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