title: Making the choice: can you go 'latex free'?
abstract: Health care facilities have many means available to minimize the risk of latex allergy for both patients and workers. A latex-allergy task force should oversee patient and employee safety. Materials and items that contain latex must be identified, and latex-free alternatives must be found.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evangelisto
mesh_terms: D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D006801:Humans; D007445:Inventories, Hospital; D020315:Latex Hypersensitivity / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011367:Professional Staff Committees; D012307:Risk Factors