Changes in dentists' infection control practices, knowledge, and attitudes about HIV over a 2-year period

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 297-302

  McCarthy, Gillian M ^a,b   Koval, John J ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; EDUCATION, DENTAL, CONTINUING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030099525     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(96)80329-5     Document Type: Article

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