Safe injection practice among health-care workers in Gharbiya Governorate, Egypt

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 893-906

  Ismail, N A ^a   Aboul Ftouh, A M ^a   El Shoubary, W H ^b   Mahaba, H ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; FEMALE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RECYCLING; SHARPS DISPOSAL; SYRINGE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; EQUIPMENT REUSE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTIONS; MALE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; VACCINATION;

EID: 34848906790     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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