Ethical Analysis of Communicating the Risk of Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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Ethical analysis of communicating the risk of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
To the Editor—The University of Michigan Health System Adult Ethics Committee recently convened to discuss whether 57 patients should be informed of possible exposure to classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) after a neurosurgical patient was suspected of contracting CJD. Current routine sterilization procedures are believed to be ineffective against prions; thus, subsequent neurosurgical pati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1086/599004