Primary prevention in health care employees: A prospective intervention study with a 3-year training period

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 202-209

  Löffler, Harald ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^b   Diepgen, Thomas ^b   Effendy, Isaak ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Education; Irritant contact dermatitis; Nurses; Occupational dermatoses; Prevention; Risk assessment; Training program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DERMATITIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAIRDRESSER; HAND; HAND DISEASE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CARE; TEACHING; TRAINING;

ADULT; DERMATITIS, IRRITANT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; EDUCATION, NURSING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HAND DERMATOSES; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN CARE;

EID: 33645709643     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2006.00825.x     Document Type: Article

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