Table 4 Input distribution data for dermal exposure.
Task | Potential dermal exposure of hands | |||||||
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Pre‐intervention | Post‐intervention | |||||||
GM† | GSD‡ | LOD§ | >LOD (total)¶ | GM† | GSD‡ | LOD§ | >LOD (total)¶ | |
Preparation | 52338 | 2.25 | 10 | 100% (8) | – | – | – | – |
Administering | 1078 | 3.99 | 10 | 52% (29) | 390 | 3.30 | 16 | 25% (20) |
Washing patients | 217* | 1.90 | 53 | 93% (28) | 217 | 1.90 | 53 | 93% (28) |
Changing bed sheets | 82 | 1.80 | 53 | 61% (28) | 82 | 1.80 | 53 | 61% (28) |
Handling urine | 1030 | 3.06 | 10 | 64% (11) | 70 | 1.75 | 53 | 54% (26) |
Cleaning | 264 | 2.08 | 53 | 53% (19) | 264 | 2.09 | 53 | 53% (19) |
*Bold values in the table indicate imputed data.
†Geometric mean of potential dermal exposure of hands (in ng/ performance).
‡Geometric standard deviation of potential dermal exposure of hands.
§Limit of detection in ng.
¶Number of samples above the limit of detection (total number of samples).