Better evidence needed to assess the effects of protective clothing for health care workers

Press release of Cochrane Work Review Group and FIOH, Kuopio 20.4.2016 Healthcare staff can be at a 100 times greater risk of infection than people in general when they work in areas affected by outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola Virus Disease or SARS. During the Ebola epidemic, dozens of NGO health care workers who wore protective clothing became infected.A Cochrane Review published today in the Cochrane Library reports that the evidence to show how well protective clothing prevents health care workers from becoming infected while working with patients with dangerous