Practice of skin protection and skin care among German surgeons and influence on the efficacy of surgical hand disinfection and surgical glove perforation

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Harnoss, Julian C ^a   Brune, Laura ^b   Ansorg, Jörg ^c   Heidecke, Claus Dieter ^b   Assadian, Ojan ^d   Kramer, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Professional Association of German Surgeons (BDC)   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alcohol based hand rub; Compliance surgeon; Hand disinfection; Interaction; Micro perforation; Skin care; Skin protection; Surgical glove; Surgical hand rub

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERMAN; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN CARE; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SKIN DISCOMFORT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN PROTECTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL GLOVE PERFORATION; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; GERMANY; HAND; HAND WASHING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMAN (CITIZEN); HEALTH EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE;

ALCOHOL; SKIN PROTECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKIN CARE; SURGEONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84902374981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-315     Document Type: Article

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