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. 2024 Oct 10;4(1):e169. doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.431

Table 3.

Primary and secondary endpoints, per protocol

Undergloves Brand 1 n = 1388 (reference) Brand 2 n = 723 Brand 3 n = 696 Brand 4 n = 700 Brands 2,3,4 Combined n = 2119
Gloves with any perforation (Failure) (n (%), P value) 153 (11.0%) 87 (12.0%), P = .516 73 (10.5%), P = .765 54 (7.7%), P = .016 214 (10.1%), P = .398
Number of perforations (mean (SD), P value 0.142 (0.458) 0.172 (0.527), P = .363 0.145 (0.483), P = .470 0.123 (.537), P = .032 0.147 (0.517), P = .337
Intraoperative failure (detected by operative team) (n (%), P value) 54 (3.9%) 14 (1.9%), P = .016 38 (5.5%), P = .097 21 (3.0%), P = .267 73 (3.4%), P = .036
Donning failure (n (%), P value) 5 (0.4%) 0 (0%), P = .117 2 (0.3%), P = .468 2 (0.3%), P = .469 4 (0.2%), P = .028
Doffing failure (n (%), P value) 6 (0.4%) 0 (0%), P = .066 2 (0.3%), P = .439 6 (0.9%), P = .217 8 (0.4%), P = .048
Overgloves Brand 1 n = 1575 (reference) Brand 2 n = 879 Brand 3 n = 887 Brand 4 n = 777 Brands 2,3,4 Combined n = 2543
Gloves with any perforation (Failure) (n (%), P value) 280 (17.8%) 174 (19.8%), P = .233 209 (23.6%), P < .001 139 (17.9%), P = .954 522 (20.5%), P = .032
Number of perforations (mean (SD), P value) 0.269 (0.710) 0.353 (0.918), P = .205 0.374 (0.840), P = .021 0.287 (0.782), P = .611 0.340 (0.852), P = .213
Intraoperative failure (detected by operative team) (n (%), P value) 92 (5.8%) 20 (2.3%), P < .001 55 (6.2%), P = .406 27 (3.5%), P = .015 102 (4.0%), P = .001
Donning failure (n (%), P value) 6 (0.4%) 0 (0%), P = .061 3 (0.3%), P = .462 2 (0.3%), P = .491 5 (0.2%), P = .021
Doffing failure (n (%), P value) 8 (0.5%) 0 (0%), P = .036 2 (0.2%), P = .234 7 (0.9%), P = .254 9 (0.4%), P = .029