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Standard precaution adherence among clinical medical students in HIV and non-HIV ward in Indonesia

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Health-care workers, especially medical intern, are at risk of exposed to blood and other body fluids in the course of their work. To reduce the risk, standard precaution (SP) is introduced.
Firas Farisi Alkaff, Sovia Salamah, Adila Taufik Syamlan, William Putera Sukmajaya, Ricardo Adrian Nugraha, Michael Jonatan, Sulistiawati Sulistiawati   +6 more
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Compliance with universal precautions among health care workers at base hospital, Negombo

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2002
Objectives: To assess self-reported compliance with universal precautions and its determinants, and to describe the occupational exposures to blood and body fluids among health care workers at Base Hospital Negombo, Methodology: A cross sectional study ...
L. D. J. U. Senarath, A. A. S. O. De Silva   +1 more
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Knowledge and practice of universal precautions among health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Koppal, Karnataka [PDF]

Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences
Background: Universal precautions are a standard set of guidelines to prevent the transmission of blood borne pathogens by observing various infection control practices.
Ravindranath A. Bhovi, Vijaykumar P. Mane, Sayan Pal   +2 more
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Analysis of Information, Impact and Control of HIV amongst Dental Professionals of Central India [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Background: Dental health care providers may be exposed to a variety of microorganisms via blood, oral or respiratory secretions. Though the risk of transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in dental settings is low, the consequences of ...
Jatin Agarwal, Rolly Shrivastava Agarwal, Asha Shrivastava, Sudha Shrivastava   +3 more
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Needlestick Injuries among Laboratory Technicians in Diagnostic Laboratories of Kanyakumari District, India [PDF]

Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2011
Background: Healthcare workers (HCW) are very prone for accidental Needlestick Injuries. Inspite of health education and interventions for prevention, needlestick injuries are still common.
Anand Kalaskar
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding Occupational HIV Exposure and Protection among Health Care Workers in China

Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2016
Background: Health care workers (HCWs) seek, treat, and care for patients living with HIV/AIDS on a daily basis and thus face a significant risk to work-related infections.
Qian Wu PhD, Xiao Fei Xue MPH, Dimpy Shah MD, MSPH, Jian Zhao MPH, Lu-Yu Hwang MD, GuiHua Zhuang PhD   +5 more
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Universal Precautions: An Underrated Nursing Intervention

Huli yanjiu, 1997
Microorganisms greatly outnumber humans.They are found everywhere;in the soil,in fresh and seawater,in the air.As we breath,eat,drink,and live we come in contact with them.Most microbes are friendly,sometimes even necessary for life.When pathogenic ...
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Occupational injury history and universal precautions awareness: a survey in Kabul hospital staff

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2010
Background Health staff in Afghanistan may be at high risk of needle stick injury and occupational infection with blood borne pathogens, but we have not found any published or unpublished data.
Garner Paul, Salehi Ahmad
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Developing a universal precautions approach to stigma reduction in health care: Insights from clinical and non-clinical health workers

SSM - Health Systems
Amid calls for stigma reduction approaches that go beyond one condition, identity or practice and growing evidence of stigma as a common experience in the general population, we explored the possibility of a “universal precautions” approach.
Carla Treloar, Louise Maher, Emily Lenton, Gemma Nourse, Adrian Farrugia, Kate Seear, Amy Kirwan, Sophia Schroeder, Caitlin Douglass, Loren Brener, Timothy R Broady, Virginia Wiseman, Mark Stoové, Rob Monaghan, Elena Cama   +14 more
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Universal Precautions for People at Risk of Opioid Overdose in North America. [PDF]

JAMA Intern Med, 2023
Wood E, Solomon ED, Hadland SE.
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