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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, F R, Lewis, W P, Schecter   +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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Universal Precautions

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1991
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Crossword: Universal Precautions

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1993
L M, Nagy, A, Spencer, C, Boettler, A, Rogers, K, Panella   +4 more
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Universal precautions: an update.

Heart & lung : the journal of critical care, 1994
Universal 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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Universal Precautions "Clarified"?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 1988
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Universal precautions

Nursing Standard, 1998
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Truly Universal Precautions

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 1993
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Universal precautions

Nursing Standard, 1997
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