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Is Double Gloving an Effective Barrier to Protect Surgeons against Blood Exposure Due to Needlestick Injury?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Elisabeth Bouvet
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases, Paris, France Group for the Prevention of Occupational Infections in Healthcare Workers, Bichat Faculty of Medicine, Paris VII University, Paris, France
Gérard Pellissier*
Affiliation:
Group for the Prevention of Occupational Infections in Healthcare Workers, Bichat Faculty of Medicine, Paris VII University, Paris, France
Dominique Abiteboul
Affiliation:
Departments of Occupational Medicine, Paris, France Group for the Prevention of Occupational Infections in Healthcare Workers, Bichat Faculty of Medicine, Paris VII University, Paris, France
François L'Hériteau
Affiliation:
Bichat University Hospital, C-CLIN Paris-Nord, Paris VI University, Paris, France
*
GERES, UFR de Médecine Bichat, 16 rue Henri Huchard, F-75870 Paris cedex 18, France( gerard.pellissier@geres.org)

Abstract

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Research Brief
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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