Anxiety in health care workers after exposure to potentially HIV-contaminated blood or body fluids

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 132, Issue 23-24, 2002, Pages 321-324

  Meienberg, Fabian ^a   Bucher, Heiner C ^a   Sponagel, Lucas ^a   Zinkernagel, Christine ^a   Gyr, Niklaus ^a   Battegay, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Exposure; Health care workers; HIV

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONALITY; PHYSICIAN; PROPHYLAXIS; VIRAL CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0037098681     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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