Creating a Consensus document for surgical gloving best practice - Part 2
Part two discusses the role of a Consensus work to overcome the challenges of implementing change.
In part two, Dr Brindle recognizes that different countries will have adopted their own gloving practice. The challenges to overcome as new recommendations for gloving best practice, entirely based on scientific evidence, are presented, is to make sure these are implemented with the evidence for why the change needs to happen clearly expressed. The systematic reviews talked about in this episode, will certainly clarify the need for the change to happen to ensure improve safety of the patient and the health care provider alike.
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Dr Brindle talks about the need for the industry to play an appropriate role in any Consensus work, without the intension to interfere with the scientific work itself, but to support and facilitate the work of the experts, resulting in the Consensus recommendations.
In this case Mölnlycke Health Care, as manufacturer of surgical and critical environment gloves, supported this Consensus work to address the scientific rational behind surgical gloving best practice. All literature reading, creation of statements, voting on recommendations as well as the writing of the final publications were handled by the group of professional experts.
Hands & gloves
Hands and gloves hold many of the critical keys to infection prevention, OR efficiency and surgical best practices. Hear more from your peers about OR practice, gloving and other surgical-glove-related topics in the podcast series, Hands & gloves.
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Gloves | 2 min read Contact dermatitis
Contact dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin resulting from direct contact of a substance with the surface of the skin 1 .
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References
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 6.4, 2023. https://training.cochrane.org/handbook/current
- PRISMA methodology https://training.cochrane.org/search/site/PRISMA%20
- Risk of bias https://training.cochrane.org/search/site/preventing%20bias%20in%20selection
- Niederberger M and Spranger J (2020) Delphi Technique in Health Sciences: A Map. Front. Public Health 8:457. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00457