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Comparative Study
Waterless Hand Rub versus Traditional Hand Scrub Methods for Preventing the Surgical-Site Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery.
- Kentaro Iwakiri, Akio Kobayashi, Masahiko Seki, Yoshiyuki Ando, Tadao Tsujio, Masatoshi Hoshino, and Hiroaki Nakamura.
- *Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shiraniwa Hospital, Ikoma-city, Nara, Japan †Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan.
- Spine. 2017 Nov 15; 42 (22): 1675-1679.
AbstractMINI: Fourteen hundred consecutive patients were investigated for evaluating the utility of waterless hand rub before orthopaedic surgery. The risk in the surgical site infection incidence was the same, but costs of liquids used for hand hygiene were cheaper and the hand hygiene time was shorter for waterless protocol, compared with traditional hand scrub.
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