The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit was developed to help primary care practices assess and make changes to improve communication with and support for patients. Twelve diverse primary care practices implemented assigned tools over a 6-month period. Qualitative results revealed challenges practices experienced during implementation, includ...

Effective measures to prevent infections from occupaonal exposure of healthcare workers to blood include mmunization against HBV, eliminating unnecessary injections, implementing Universal Precautions, eliminating needle recapping and disposing of the sharp into a sharps container immediately after use, use of safer devices such as needles that sheath or retract after use, provision and use of ...

This study examined professional nurses' knowledge and understanding of AIDS/HIV infection. The sample was formed by 53 professional nurses; 27 being those that have done the AIDS counselling course (trained counsellors) and 26 who have not done the course. This sample was randomly chosen from a population of 192 professional nurses representing all departments. Questionnaires were sent to the ...

OBJECTIVE To compare infection control (IC) knowledge, attitudes and practice of dentists across eight countries. METHODS Self-administered infection control surveys were completed by 1,874 clinicians in eight countries. Practitioner's knowledge, attitudes, and practice of infection control were examined using over 100 variables. Chi-squared statistics (α = 0.05) were used to compare responde...

AIM We assessed the compliance at first level care facilities (FLCF) with universal precautions (UP) and its behavioral predictors using Health Belief Model (HBM). METHODS A sample of FLCF from public clinic (PC), privately owned licensed practitioners' clinic (LPC) and non-licensed practitioners' clinic (NLPC) was obtained. Health Care Workers (HCW) who diagnose and prescribe medication was ...

We describe two cases of malaria occurring in a malaria-free zone in two in-patients, two weeks after a case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, acquired in Burkina Faso, had been admitted to the same ward. After reviewing the techniques used by nursing staff, we conclude that transmission probably occurred via gloves contaminated following manipulation of venous cannulae and drip lines of the pa...

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.

This paper discusses how to analyze syntactically irregular expressions in a syntactic treebank. We distinguish such Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs) from comparable non-compositional expressions, i.e. idioms. A solution is proposed in the framework of Universal Dependencies (UD). We further discuss the case of functional MWEs, which are particularly problematic in UD.

Background: The new wave of nosocomial infections arising from various medical settings as well as other related environment has been of much concern for some time. The fact that blood and other fluids from patients are becoming increasingly hazardous to those who provide care for them had become of great concern to public health professionals the world over. This study was conducted to assess ...

BACKGROUND The standardized patient approach has proved to be an effective training tool for medical educators. This article explains the process of employing standardized patients in an HIV stigma reduction intervention in healthcare settings in China. METHODS The study was conducted in 40 hospitals in two provinces of China. One year after the stigma reduction intervention, standardized pat...