Midwife, ANC provincial hospital Observation revealed good practice of precaution when health workers assisted deliveries for HIV-positive women, but not always for HIV-negative women.
We conducted an assessment of knowledge about BBPs, risk perception and practice of universal precautions at first level care facilities in two districts of Sindh province, Pakistan.
The main purpose of this web-based survey was to evaluate Jordanian nursing students' knowledge and practice of standard precautions.
The first strategy involves the systematic implementation in every clinical practice of "universal precautions," a set of procedures that help physicians implement opioid therapy in a safe and controlled manner.
Hence, the practice of universal precautions depends on knowledge about transmission mode and work experience of the health care worker.
We performed multiple linear regression to assess the effect of knowledge score (11 items) on the practice of universal precautions score (4 items- use of gloves, gown, needle recapping, and HBV vaccination).
We performed multiple linear regression analysis to assess the relationship of modes of transmission knowledge score, precaution knowledge score, perceived risk at work place, perceived severity of disease due to NSI at work place, age, work experience, respondent type and qualification with the practice of universal precautions score.
The objective of this study was to assess the exposure, knowledge and practices of standard precautions among Health care workers (HCWs) in Southern Nigeria.
Given the high prevalence of influenza-associated respiratory illnesses in hospitals, recent studies have examined the practice of enhanced respiratory precautions.
The recent emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases have made the knowledge and practice of standard infection control precautions in developing countries more important than ever.
