caa a22 4500 606248625 CHVBK 20210128101351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12262-015-1279-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12262-015-1279-7 Gloves Reprocessing: Does It Really Save Money? [Elektronische Daten] [Pankaj Arora, Santosh Kumari, Jitender Sodhi, Shweta Talati, Anil Gupta] Gloves are reprocessed and reused in health-care facilities in resource-limited settings to reduce the cost of availability of gloves. The study was done with the aim to compute the cost of reprocessing of gloves so that an economically rationale decision can be taken. A retrospective record-based cross-sectional study was undertaken in a central sterile supply department where different steps during reprocessing of gloves were identified and the cost involved in reprocessing per pair of gloves was calculated. The cost of material and manpower was calculated to arrive at the cost of reprocessing per pair of gloves. The cost of a reprocessed pair of surgical gloves was calculated to be Indian Rupee (INR) 14.33 which was greater than the cost of a new pair of disposable surgical gloves (INR 9.90) as the cost of sterilization of one pair of gloves itself came outto be INR 10.97. The current study showed that the purchase of sterile disposable single-use gloves is cheaper than the process of recycling. Reprocessing of gloves is not economical on tangible terms even in resource-limited settings, and from the perspective of better infection control as well as health-care worker safety, it further justifies the use of disposable gloves. Association of Surgeons of India, 2015 Gloves nationallicence Reprocessing nationallicence Cost nationallicence Health-care worker safety nationallicence Arora Pankaj Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut Kumari Santosh Central Sterile Supply Department, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut Sodhi Jitender Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut Talati Shweta Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut Gupta Anil Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut Indian Journal of Surgery Springer India 77(2015-12-01), 1291-1294 0972-2068 77<1291 2015 77 12262 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-015-1279-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-015-1279-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Arora Pankaj Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kumari Santosh Central Sterile Supply Department, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sodhi Jitender Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Talati Shweta Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gupta Anil Department of Hospital Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Indian Journal of Surgery Springer India 77(2015-12-01), 1291-1294 0972-2068 77<1291 2015 77 12262