Contributing Risk Factors to Self-Contamination During the Process of Donning and Doffing Personal Protective Equipment

• Published in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness Vol. 18; p. e19
• Main Authors: Liu, Yunyun, Tan, Fengling, Yao, Qiu, Wang, Shuqi, Zhou, Ping, Sun, Yihui, Li, Liubing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 08.02.2024
• Subjects: risk factors; PPE donning and doffing; contamination points; fluorescence simulation

The goal of this study is to explore the risk factors associated with self-contamination points during personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing among health care workers (HCWs). In total, 116 HCWs were randomly sampled and trained to don and doff the whole PPE set. We smeared the whol...