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The application of universal precautions.

open access: yesCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 1992
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Universal Precautions Are Not Universally Followed

Archives of Surgery, 1991
Adherence 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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Universal Precautions Kit

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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Are Universal Precautions Realistic?

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1995
In 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, 1990
An 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, 1991
Abstract 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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