Infection control practices and compliance to national recommendations among dentists in Romania

International Dental Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 260-268

  Bancescu, Adrian A ^a   Ciufecu, Constantin ^a   Skaug, Nils ^a,b   Palenik, Charles J ^a  

^a Armauer Hansen Building ^*

^b Laboratory of Oral Microbiology   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; COST; DENTAL FACILITY; DENTIST; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MASK; NEEDLE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECYCLING; ROMANIA; SURGICAL GLOVE; SYRINGE; VACCINATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DENTAL OFFICES; DENTISTS; DISINFECTANTS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT REUSE; ETHANOL; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; MASKS; NEEDLES; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROMANIA; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; STERILIZATION; SYRINGES; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033205629     PISSN: 00206539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1875-595X.1999.tb00796.x     Document Type: Article

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