Professional healthcare workers' attitudes toward treating patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 222-227

  Sugarman, Jeremy ^a   Terry, Peter ^b,c   Faden, Ruth R ^d   Holmes, Denise E ^e   Fogarty, Linda ^f   Pyeritz, Reed E ^g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL (BALTIMORE, MD); MORALITY; NURSING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL (BALTIMORE, MD); PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BALTIMORE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 0030226774     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. In this article, MDRTB is defined as a strain of M. tuberculosis that is resistant to two or more antimicrobial agents, typically isoniazid and rifampin.
2. L. Belkin, "Fear of Disease Changing How Doctors Work," New York Times, 7 April 1992, A1, B2.
3. T.R. Frieden et al., "The Emergence of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in New York City," New England Journal of Medicine 328 (1993): 521-26.
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5. C. Beck-Sagué et al., "Hospital Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections," Journal of the American Medical Association 268 (1992): 1280-86;
6. M.L. Pearson et al., "Nosocomial Transmission of Multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A Risk to Patients and Health Care Workers," Annals of Internal Medicine 117 (1992): 191-96.
7. S.W. Dooley et al., "Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis," Annals of Internal Medicine 117 (1992): 257-59.