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Universal Precautions Are Not Universally Followed
Archives of Surgery, 1991Adherence to universal blood and body fluid precautions was studied in surgical patient care areas of a university hospital in an effort to identify potentially hazardous health care personnel practices. Surgical teams of an 18-unit operating room, three surgical ward patient care teams, and patient care personnel in a 16-bed surgical intensive care ...
K R, Courington +2 more
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1993
To the Editor: The Bath Veterans Administration Medical Center is a large primary care facility that includes a Domiciliary, Nursing Home Care Unit, and intermediate beds as well as 70 acute medical beds and 26 psychiatric beds. As we have no surgical department, it is often necessary to transport patients over fairly great distances to other ...
P A, Kephart, K L, Roman, D M, Myers
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To the Editor: The Bath Veterans Administration Medical Center is a large primary care facility that includes a Domiciliary, Nursing Home Care Unit, and intermediate beds as well as 70 acute medical beds and 26 psychiatric beds. As we have no surgical department, it is often necessary to transport patients over fairly great distances to other ...
P A, Kephart, K L, Roman, D M, Myers
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Are Universal Precautions Realistic?
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1995In concluding whether universal precautions are necessary, it certainly appears that we need something to reduce the significant problem of HIV transmission to health-care providers. As occupational risk goes, it exceeds the occupational risk of a number of other high-risk professions.
J L, Gerberding +2 more
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POOR COMPLIANCE WITH UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS - - A UNIVERSAL PHENOMENON?
Pediatric Emergency Care, 1990An anonymous survey was conducted in order to examine compliance with universal precautions in the Department of Pediatrics at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. Completed questionnaires were returned by 23 faculty members, 29 residents, and 22 medical students.
S P, Ros, B L, Cabrera-Ros
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HIV and safety: Universal precautions
Clinics in Dermatology, 1991Abstract Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) was considered to be an obscure, indolent, neoplastic disorder, occurring predominantly in elderly men of Mediterranean or Eastern European descent until 1981 when a combined epidemic of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and KS was described in young men of homosexual or bisexual orientation in New York and California.
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Crossword: Universal Precautions
The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1993L M, Nagy +4 more
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Universal precautions: an update.
Heart & lung : the journal of critical care, 1994Universal precautions, the set of work practice recommendations designed to help minimize occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, have been shown to be effective. However, lack of compliance with these recommendations has been well documented, both before and after the enactment of the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.
R R, Gershon, C, Karkashian, S, Felknor
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