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We evaluated factors associated with gloving practices and identified associations between gloving practices and sharps-injury risk.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700038789_abs2\"><jats:title>Design.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Usual-frequency case-crossover study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700038789_abs3\"><jats:title>Setting.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Thirteen medical centers in the United States and Canada.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700038789_abs4\"><jats:title>Participants.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Six hundred thirty-six healthcare workers who presented to employee health clinics after sharps injury.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700038789_abs5\"><jats:title>Methods.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Structured telephone questionnaires were administered to assess usual behaviors and circumstances at the time of injury.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700038789_abs6\"><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 636 injured healthcare workers, 195 were scrubbed in an operating room or procedure suite when injured, and 441 were injured elsewhere. Nonscrubbed individuals were more commonly gloved when treating patients who were perceived to have a high risk of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, or hepatitis C virus infection than when treating other patients (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.53 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.30-4.91]). Nurses (aOR, 0.11 [95% CI, 0.04-0.32]) and other employees (aOR, 0.24 [95% CI, 0.07-0.77]) were less commonly gloved at injury than were physicians and physician trainees. Gloves reduced injury risk in case-crossover analyses (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 0.33 [95% CI, 0.22-0.50]). In scrubbed individuals, involvement in an orthopedic procedure was associated with double gloving at injury (aOR, 13.7 [95% CI, 4.55-41.3]); this gloving practice was associated with decreased injury risk (IRR, 0.20 [95% CI, 0.10-0.42]).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700038789_abs7\"><jats:title>Conclusions.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Although the use of gloves reduces the risk of sharps injuries in health care, use among healthcare workers is inconsistent and may be influenced by risk perception and healthcare culture. 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