conclusions the frequency of nis in this hospital was lower in comparison with other worldwide studies. however, low incidence of health care-associated infections in our study may be due to under diagnosis and underreporting of such infections by health care staff. results the incidence of nis was low (i.e. < 2%). among 16936 admitted patients in this hospital, 174 patients (79 males and 95 fe...

Background : Health care workers, as their profession require, are constantly exposed to patients, infected blood and body fluids. The main objective of this study was to determine the epidemiologic and clinical aspects of occupational exposure to patients, blood and body fluids and related factors in health care workers of Shohada Ashayer hospital. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectio...

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La SNCF souhaite mettre à la disposition de ses personnels un outil qui leur permette de partager et de développer leurs connaissances et expériences en matière de conduite du changement, c’est-à-dire de prise en compte des facteurs humains pour la réussite d’un projet.Ces connaissances sont, pour la plupart des acteurs, empiriques, particulièrement ancrées dans leur action et donc tacites. Com...

We describe a group of 3 cases of invasive meningococcal disease that occurred in a military training camp in April 2011. All three patients were hospitalized. Ultimately, two patients recovered and one died. One patient had meningitis, one patient had septicemia and meningitis, and the other had no definite septicemia or meningitis. Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W-135 was detected in the se...

With the rapid development of computer science and technology, network attack and defense has become an important research topic in the field of information security. Teaching on network attack and defense technology in universities and research institutions has a very strong experimental characteristic, but due to the special nature and the destructive characteristic of network attack and defe...

Background Failure to plan a pregnancy can adversely affect the health of the family as a whole. High parity is related to increased maternal, perinatal and infant deaths and is associated with nutritional problems of both mother and child. Hence, good knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning among women are important. This study is aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude and prac...

background: hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is an endemic infection in nigeria. health care workers (hcws) are at risk of occupational exposures to hbv-infected blood and body fluids. objective: to determine the prevalence and determinants of hbv vaccine coverage among hcws in two teaching hospitals in nigeria. methods: this cross-sectional study was undertaken in 2011 and 2012 in two teachin...