Biosafety and Biohazards: Understanding Biosafety Levels and Meeting Safety Requirements of a Biobank. [PDF]
, 2019 When it comes to biobanking and working with different types of laboratory specimens, it is important to understand potential biohazards to ensure safety of the operator and laboratory personnel.
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Proven HIV Prevention Strategies [PDF]
, 2009 Describes strategies that, used in combination, have proven to be effective in preventing sexual, blood-borne, and mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
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Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap Part I: Case Studies in Transforming Hospital Nursing and Building Cultures of Safety [PDF]
, 2009 Presents case studies of strategies four healthcare systems and a state government are using to address underlying causes in flawed systems: strengthening care processes, optimizing staffing, and promoting safe work habits.
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The choice of gadolinium-based contrast agents: a radiologist’s responsibility between pharmaceutical equivalence and bioethical issues [PDF]
, 2017 Contrast Agents (CA) are among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide, and are used, with a variety of techniques, to increase and intensify the differences between body tissues and to help radiologist make diagnoses in a fast and precise way.
Cartocci, Gaia +5 more
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SSM - Health SystemsAmid 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 +14 more
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Impact of Educational Intervention Measures on Knowledge regarding HIV/ Occupational Exposure and Post Exposure Prophylaxis among Final Year Nursing Students of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Central India [PDF]
, 2010 Amongst the different Health Care Personnel nurses are at a greater risk of being accidentally exposed to HIV and other Blood Borne Pathogens. The present study was conducted among 50 final year nursing students of a Medical College Hospital to assess ...
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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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American Medicine and the Politics of Race [PDF]
, 2005 Straw men play a major role in the debate over racial disparity in American medicine. Most have been deployed by the disparities-denying right, but progressives intent on “outing” racism have sent forth their share.
Bloche, Maxwell Gregg
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Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014 Introduction: This study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of health care workers (HCWs) towards universal precautions (UPs) and to look into any associations between knowledge and practice.
Said Hafizullah Fayaz +5 more
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Bringing HIV Prevention to Scale: An Urgent Global Priority [PDF]
, 2007 Illustrates the need for a scaled-up HIV prevention response in order to stem the epidemic, describes impediments to HIV prevention efforts and examples of successful initiatives, and includes recommendations for governments, health agencies, and ...
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