Prevalence of needlestick injuries among medical students at a university in Iran [2]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-101

  Askarian, Mehrdad ^a   Malekmakan, Leila ^a   McLaws, Mary Louise ^b   Zare, Najaf ^a   Patterson, J Megan M ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS C VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE;

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; IRAN; LETTER; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; PROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAN; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; PREVALENCE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 33646445204     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499392     Document Type: Letter

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