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Bare Below the Elbows: Professionalism vs Infection Risk

Published:2010-07-01 Issue:7 Volume:92 Page:248-251
ISSN:1473-6357
Container-title:The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
language:en
Short-container-title:Bulletin

Author:

Baxter JA¹,Dale O²,Morritt A³,Pollock JC³

Affiliation:

1. CT2 Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Selly Oak Hospital

2. CT2 in ENT, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol

3. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nottingham City Hospital

Abstract

In September 2007 the Department of Health (DH) published a document entitled Uniforms and workwear: An evidence base for developing local policy. This report tackled the issues of wearing and appropriately laundering workwear in an effort to advise employers when creating their local policy. It was based on two literature reviews carried out by Thames Valley University known as TVU1 and TVU2. These studies looked at the evidence surrounding the role of uniforms in the transmission of infection (TVU1), the efficacy of laundry practices in removing contamination (TVU1) and how public perception of both the individual and the organisation is altered by uniforms (TVU2).

Publisher

Royal College of Surgeons of England

Subject

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Link

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/147363510X510581

Reference18 articles.

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2. Public perception and the social and microbiological significance of uniforms in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an evidence review

3. epic2: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England

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