# OnCo record idea-upgrade-masks-and-head-turn-at-port-access-infection-study (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-upgrade-masks-and-head-turn-at-port-access-infection-study/>
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  schema:identifier "idea-upgrade-masks-and-head-turn-at-port-access-infection-study" ;
  schema:name "Masks on patient and nurse, and the head turned away, while a port is accessed: a comparison of infection rates"@en ;
  schema:description "Some hospitals ask the nurse to wear a mask, put a mask on the patient and ask the patient to turn their head away while a chemotherapy port is accessed. No national guideline read asks for this, and no study of whether it prevents port infections was found. A comparison would settle whether it should be standard or can be dropped."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-upgrade-masks-and-head-turn-at-port-access-infection-study/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-11"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://healthproviders.sharedhealthmb.ca/download/924/p-standard-clinical-procedures/42744/p02-2-medication-fluid-administration-by-subcutaneous-port.pdf>, <https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/media/pdfs/Guideline-BSI-H.pdf>, <https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2022.87>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6701(13)60012-2> ;
  onco:tag "protocol-upgrade", "upgrade:untested", "evidence:insufficient" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-upgrade-central-line-discard-volume-in-cancer-outpatients/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/implanted-ports/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/huber-needles-port-access/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/infusion-devices-vascular-access/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/central-venous-access/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/> .