background: in recent years, dentists have more opportunity of treating patients infected with blood-borne pathogens. although compliance with infection control practice (icp) in dental practice is required, it is not still sufficiently spread in japan. objective: to identify factors associated with compliance with icps in the population of japanese dentists. methods: in a questionnaire-based c...

The low awareness of nurses to carry out nursing actions causes be very vulnerable transmission infection because in providing care patients will have direct contact with blood and body fluids. Universal precautions require health workers treat all equally using universal regardless the disease. purpose this study was determine relationship between knowledge about Precaution prevention Nosocomi...

background: the guidelines for minimizing occupational health risk from exposure to highly infectious diseases is already established but little information exists on the compliance of these measures among paramedical workers in india. objective: to study the awareness of occupational safety measures such as universal precautions, biomedical waste handling, disposal and its compliance in their ...

In the environmental health literature, errors in interpreting studies or data are not infrequent. Many are of the Type II variety. Common solecisms of this type are: treating the criterion of p < 0.05 as a sacrament; demanding complete confounder control; arguing for the existence of phantom confounders; arguing that the effect size is trivial; building nonveridical models; arguing for no effe...

Transmission of organisms within the hospital setting has become a topic of major concern not only for patients and healthcare facilities but also for government agencies and the general public. This increased awareness has occurred in part due to the spread of organisms that have limited treatment options, such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), as well as the heightened recogni...

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 a...

We compare alternative information security policies—facilitating enduser precautions and enforcement against attackers. The context is mass and targeted attacks, taking account of strategic interactions between end users and attackers. For both mass and targeted attacks, facilitating end-user precautions reduces the expected loss of end users. However, the impact of enforcement on expected los...