OBJECTIVE To evaluate Universal Precautions (UP) compliance in the operating room (OR). DESIGN Prospective observational cohort. Trained observers recorded information about (1) personal protective equipment used by OR staff; (2) eyewear, glove, or gown breaks; (3) the nature of sharps transfers; (4) risk-taking behaviors of the OR staff; and (5) needlestick injuries and other blood and body-...

Hospitals are adopting advanced messaging systems to facilitate communication among healthcare personnel with the aim of improving patient care. However, users face various challenges in employing these systems, with serious consequences of miscommunication. Nevertheless, past studies on healthcare messaging systems tend to be descriptive with a lack of theoretically grounded and empirical vali...

Purpose The mass exodus of the professional healthcare workforce has become a cankerworm for developing nation like Nigeria, and this worsens already depleted systems in underdeveloped nation. This study investigated rationale behind medical workers' brain-drain syndrome quality delivery Nigerian public sector. Design/methodology/approach To stimulate an understanding effect phenomenon called b...

These consensus guidelines provide recommendations for the safe handling of monoclonal antibodies. Definitive recommendations are given for the minimum safe handling requirements to protect healthcare personnel. The seven recommendations cover: (i) appropriate determinants for evaluating occupational exposure risk; (ii) occupational risk level compared with other hazardous and non-hazardous dru...

Involvement of medical technologies in healthcare encounters calls for a critical analysis of the communicative expertise of healthcare personnel dealing with the technology while communicating with patients. This paper explores how a discourse analytic approach, activity analysis, is fruitful when identifying what characterizes human interaction involving medical technologies. The paper sugges...

Background: This study is conducted with the aim of determining the knowledge, attitude and behaviors of the personnel on radiation safety, who are exposed to radiation and working in a university hospital in Istanbul.  Materials and Methods: In this research, which is descriptive, a questionnaire that consists of 20 questions conducted to 101 healthcare personnel who are working with radiation...

Participants 19 English speaking carers who attended the ward and 25 healthcare workers. Informal carers were those who provided physical or social care or assistance for another person. Without this help, the recipient would need health, social, or voluntary sector service intervention. Healthcare workers were nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, ambulance personnel, ...

the main asset of farmers is their labour and the utilization of healthcare services will help to improve their health and thus productivity. some of the problems inhibiting proper utilization of healthcare services in nigeria include non-availability, inaccessibility and high cost of medical care. the aim of this paper is to examine the determinants of the utilization of healthcare services am...