Skin disinfection and its efficacy before administering injections.
The need to disinfect a patient's skin before subcutaneous or intramuscular injection is a much debated practice. Guidance on this issue varies between NHS organisations that provide primary and secondary care. However, with patients being increasingly concerned with healthcare-associated infections, a general consensus needs to be reached whereby this practice is either rejected or made mandatory.
Gittens
Gemma
G
Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull. G.Gittens@2007.hull.ac.uk
Bunnell
Toni
T
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