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The timing of hair removal has generally been

based on facilitating ease of preparatory activity

by health care workers or by facility policy rather

than scientific evidenceAlthough experts have

long held the view that hair removal close to the

time of surgery may reduce the risk of surgical

site infection, surveys have found a majority of

hospitals policy is to remove surgical site hair the

evening before surgery.

A randomised study of 1,013 patients

demonstrated no significant difference in surgical

site infection when shaving surgical site hair the

evening before surgery, or the day of surgery

(p=0.69). The same study compared use of

clippers on the evening before surgery, and the

day of surgery and found surgical incision sites

categorised as clean were statistically less likely

to develop infection when surgical hair removal

was performed the morning of surgery (p=0.027

on discharge). This effect was maintained at 30-

day follow up (p=0.006). One observational

study of 536 patients prospectively studied the

timing of preoperative shaving. This study found

patients shaved 12 or more hours prior to

surgery were at no greater risk of surgical site

infection compared with patients shaved less

than 2 hours prior to surgery (p=0.64). However,

subgroup analysis found wounds that had been

categorised as "clean" (see Table 2) were less

likely to result in a surgical site infection if hair

was removed with clippers less than 2 hours

prior to surgery (p

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