Occupational asthma among hospital health care personnel: a cause for concern?
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Occupational blood exposure among health care personnel and hospital trainees.
Blood and body fluid Exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. Therefor We conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of Sfax. We have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health p...
متن کاملoccupational blood exposure among health care personnel and hospital trainees
blood and body fluid exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. therefore, we conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of sfax. we have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health...
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RATIONALE Recent U.S. data suggest an increased risk of work-related asthma among health care workers, yet only a few specific determinants have been elucidated. OBJECTIVES To evaluate associations of asthma prevalence with occupational exposures in a cross-sectional survey of health care professionals. METHODS A detailed questionnaire was mailed to a random sample (n=5,600) of all Texas ph...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.49.3.198