compliance with standard precautions: a long way ahead
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background: to find out the knowledge, attitude and compliance with standard precautions among doctors working in a tertiary care hospital. methods: the cross sectional study was conducted during october 2006 in the form of self reporting questionnaire. the questionnaire included question about duration of clinical experience, hepatitis b virus vaccination and its antibody titer, knowledge and compliance of centre for disease control (cdc) standard precaution guidelines. they were further asked about reasons for non compliance. results: total 120 doctors participated in this study which includes 60% interns, 34.2% residents and 5.8% consultants. total 95% respondents were vaccinated against hepatitis b virus but only 27.4% knew their antibody titers. majority of the doctors, 52.5% didn't know any thing about centres for disease control guideline for standard precautions while 40% of the respondent had some idea and only 7.5% knew them well. among responders 56.7% changed gloves for each patient and only 39.2% washed hand in between examining patients. most of the doctors 58.3% said they always wear apron while dealing with patients while 20% wear only when dealing with high risk patients. protective goggles were not used by any of our respondent. the reasons given for non-compliance included non-availability of protective modalities by 58.3% while 20% were of the opinion that it's not practical. conclusion: the knowledge attitude and compliance among doctors towards standard precautions is in-adequate. availability of supplies and awareness programmes for these standard precautions are recommended for better compliance.
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Journal title:
iranian journal of public healthجلد ۳۸، شماره ۱، صفحات ۸۵-۸۸
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