Healthcare Personnel Attire in Non-Operating-Room Settings

"BBE Approach"

Bare below the elbows” (BBE): "This article defines BBE as Health Care Professional (HCP’s) wearing of short sleeves, no wristwatch, no jewelry, and no ties during clinical practice. Facilities may consider adoption of a BBE approach to inpatient care as an infection prevention adjunct, although the optimal choice of alternate attire, such as scrub uniforms or other short-sleeved personal attire, remains undefined"

Read full guidelines at  http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675066

Healthcare Personnel Attire in Non-Operating-Room Settings - infection Control and Hospital Epidemioogy, Vol. 35, No. 2, February 2014