"Cloud" Health-Care Workers

"Cloud" health-care workers.

Certain bacteria dispersed by health-care workers can cause hospital infections. Asymptomatic health-care workers colonized rectally, vaginally, or on the skin with group A streptococci have caused outbreaks of surgical site infection by airborne dispersal. Outbreaks have been associated with skin colonization or viral upper respiratory tract infection in a phenomenon of airborne dispersal of S...

Tuberculosis among Health Care Workers

To assess the annual risk for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among health care workers (HCWs), the incidence rate ratio for tuberculosis (TB) among HCWs worldwide, and the population-attributable fraction of TB to exposure of HCWs in their work settings, we reviewed the literature. Stratified pooled estimates for the LTBI rate for countries with low (<50 cases/100,000 population), interme...

Improving workers' compensation health care.

Awareness towards Occupation Exposure among Health Care Workers of a Tertiary Care Hospital: A KAP Survey

Background and Objectives: Health care workers are under constant exposure to the risk of ooccupational blood-borne infection, which most of the time can be avoided by observing standard precautions. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of health care workers of a sample tertiary care hospital towards occupational exposure to blood-borne pat...

Mandatory vaccination of health care workers.

10.1056/nejmp0910151 nejm.org 1 In justifying New York State’s regulations requiring health care workers who have direct contact with patients or who may expose patients to disease to be vacci­ nated against seasonal and H1N1 influenza, New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines re­ cently argued, “[O]ur overriding concern . . . as health care work­ ers, should be the interests of our pa...