Healthcare workers' attitudes and compliance with universal precautions: gender, occupation, and specialty differences.
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We describe variations in healthcare workers' attitudes toward double gloving and reporting needlesticks, and in their readiness to comply with double gloving and hepatitis B vaccine. Differences related to occupation, specialty, and gender have implications for the need to tailor interventions for specific groups of healthcare workers to improve compliance with Universal Precautions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 18 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997