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The finger prick can cause blood contamination of surfaces in contact with the lanced finger, especially door handles, risking infectious disease transmission, particularly if another person touching the contaminated door handle also has a punctured fingertip.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>First, we investigated contamination by blood (benzidine assay) of the door handles of our blood donor clinic, taking 175 samples 3\u00a0h after opening of the donation centre (baseline). We then introduced band\u2010aids to cover the finger prick and started an information campaign using educational flyers to sensitize blood donors and staff to this problem (period\u20101). Thereafter, the staff was instructed to use the non\u2010dominant hand for blood sampling and mandated to replace any discarded band\u2010aids immediately (period\u20102).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>At baseline, 82% of the nurse room door handles showed contamination with blood. This decreased somewhat (10\u201340%) after period\u20101, but only after immediate mandatory band\u2010aid replacement on any donor finger without a band\u2010aid (period\u20102), no further blood contaminations were detected.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Blood contamination of shared surfaces can occur after finger prick for capillary blood sampling. 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