The impact of nurse understaffing on the transmission of hepatitis C virus in a hospital-based hemodialysis unit

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 129-135

  Saxena, Anil Kumar ^a   Panhotra, B R ^a  

^a KING FAHAD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; Hepatitis C virus; Nosocomial transmission; Nurse understaffing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEROCONVERSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842579410     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076951     Document Type: Review

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