Study Suggests Glove, Gown Removal May Lead To Contamination.

“Science Now” blog reports that a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine indicated that when hospital workers removed personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gloves and gowns, the fake bacteria used in the study ended up on the workers’ skin or clothing 46 percent of the time. The Times reports that “the most common mistakes were failure to pull gloves over the wrist, taking gowns off over the head (instead of pulling them away from the body), putting on gloves before the gown and touching the outside of a dirty glove when taking it off.” Reuters (10/13, Doyle) and HealthDay (10/13, Preidt) also report on the study. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-hospital-contamination-gowns-gloves-fail-20151011-story.html