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...

Nosocomial pneumonia is an important concern for patients, clinicians, health care executives, and third-party payers. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published the first CDC guidelines addressing infection control problems in 1981. These guidelines were revised and expanded in 1994 and are an important guide to develop hospital infection control practices.1 Since the publication of the 1...