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Healthcare Workers’ Strategies for Doffing Personal Protective Equipment
Journal article   Open access   Peer reviewed

Healthcare Workers’ Strategies for Doffing Personal Protective Equipment

Jure Baloh, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Kimberly Dukes, Jaqueline Pereira da Silva, Hugh P Salehi, Melissa Ward, Emily E Chasco, Priyadarshini R Pennathur and Loreen Herwaldt
Clinical infectious diseases, Vol.69(Suppl 3), pp.S192-S198
10/01/2019
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz613
PMCID: PMC6743502
PMID: 31517970
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https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz613View
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Abstract

Healthcare workers seek both safety and expediency when doffing personal protective equipment (PPE). While doffing, they track contaminated surfaces, follow design cues, and rely on experience to improvise. They encounter numerous doffing barriers and facilitators, chiefly pertaining to PPE design.
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