background: universal precautions are not well understood or implemented by health care practitioners, though crucial in the prevention and transmission of blood-borne pathogens like hiv. objective: to assess knowledge, awareness and compliance of universal precautions among health care workers at the university hospital of the west indies, jamaica. method: a cross-sectional survey was conducte...

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 ...

the burden of exposure to blood-borne pathogens (such as hepatitis b and c viruses) is considerable for health care workers. hepatitis virus transmission requires a non-immune host, an infectious source, and skin or mucous membrane injury. these three aspects are the main fields for preventional interventions. we reviewed major recent studies on this topic to identify precautions health care wo...

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...

OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of universal precautions among Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, medical students in their clinical years. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A self-administered questionnaire including 9 knowledge and 9 practice questions of universal precautions was used. A score was calculated for both knowledge and practice. These sc...

Scientists from various disciplines have begun to focus attention on the psychology and biology of human morality. One research program that has recently gained attention is universal moral grammar (UMG). UMG seeks to describe the nature and origin of moral knowledge by using concepts and models similar to those used in Chomsky's program in linguistics. This approach is thought to provide a fru...

Everett (2016b) criticizes The Phonological Mind thesis (Berent, 2013a,b) on logical, methodological and empirical grounds. Most of Everett's concerns are directed toward the hypothesis that the phonological grammar is constrained by universal grammatical (UG) principles. Contrary to Everett's logical challenges, here I show that the UG hypothesis is readily falsifiable, that universality is no...

AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to assess nurses' information-seeking strategies and problems encountered when seeking clinical guidelines on the Internet, and to investigate the criteria they apply when evaluating the guidelines and the websites communicating the guidelines. BACKGROUND As nurses are increasingly taking on clinical responsibilities, they should be able to use ...