Infected Physicians and Invasive Procedures: National Policy and Legal Reality

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 511-529

  Tereskerz, Patti Miller ^a,b   Pearson, Richard D ^a   Jagger, Janine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b International Healthcare Worker Safety Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; LEGAL APPROACH;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISCLOSURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GUIDELINES; HEALTH POLICY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALPRACTICE; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033251439     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00150     Document Type: Article

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