Findings indicate glove change reduces post-CB infections, suggesting cost savings for maternity services.
By reducing post-CB infections, pre-closure glove change may reduce costs and release meaningful capacity for both local maternity services and the English NHS as a whole. Inadequate post-discharge follow-up may have led to under-estimation of the true incidence of post-CB SSI in previously published studies.
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