Study finds hand washing before gloving hinders adherence

skin irritation and improvements in staff satisfaction.

Around 60 per cent perceived no risks and had concerns about a direct-gloving strategy if it were proven to be safe.

The results found both methods had a low overall prevalence of potential pathogenic organisms on gloves, and that there was no significant difference in the total bacterial colony counts between the two strategies.

Putting on gloves without first washing the hands in a healthcare setting could be as safe as current strategies which require hand-washing before donning gloves, according to a new study.

And current guidelines could actually be having an adverse effect on hand hygiene adherence claim the authors of the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Most healthcare policies decree that healthcare staff should first wash their hands before putting on gloves. US researchers carried out a randomised trial among 3,790 healthcare personnel across 13 hospitals where a percentage of participants adhered to a ‘direct-gloving’ strategy whereas the others adopted a method whereby hand hygiene was performed before donning gloves.

• Au Royaume-Uni, des agents de nettoyage mal payés se forcent à travailler quand ils sont malades parce qu’ils ne peuvent pas réclamer des allocations santé, indique une enquête.

• Selon une nouvelle étude, le port de gants sans un lavage préalable des mains dans un contexte de santé présenterait le même degré de sécurité que les stratégies actuelles prévoyant le lavage préalable des mains.

When questioned about the strategies, 68 per cent of participants saw potential benefits in the direct-gloving policy such as increased time and cost efficiency, lower levels of

• Eine Untersuchung hat ergeben, dass sich schlecht bezahlte britische Reinigungskräfte zur Arbeit schleppen, wenn sie krank sind, weil viele von ihnen nicht in der Lage sind, eine Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall zu verlangen.

• Laut einer neuen Studie könnte das Anziehen von Handschuhen, ohne vorher die Hände zu waschen, in einer medizinischen Umgebung genauso sicher sein wie aktuelle Strategien, die zuerst das Händewaschen erfordern.

The authors concluded a direct-gloving policy was “as safe as the current strategy requiring hand washing before donning gloves in areas in which hand hygiene rates were otherwise high”.

However, the study also noted a direct-gloving strategy should not be used in emergency departments or other areas where overall adherence to hand hygiene and glove use is low until further studies take place.

• Secondo una ricerca, gli addetti alle pulizie del Regno Unito a bassa retribuzione si trascinano al lavoro quando sono malati perché molti di loro non sono in grado di richiedere l’indennità di malattia.

• Secondo un nuovo studio, indossare i guanti senza prima lavarsi le mani in un ambiente sanitario potrebbe essere sicuro quanto le attuali strategie che richiedono prima il lavaggio delle mani.

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