Professional biological risk factors of health care workers;Medicinos darbuotojų profesiniai biologiniai rizikos veiksniai

Medicina

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 530-536

  Gailiene, Greta ^a   Cenenkiene, Regina ^a  

^a Kardiologijos institutas   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Biological fluids; Exposure; Health care worker; Sharps injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BODY FLUID; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; HAND INJURY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; BODY FLUIDS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 70349397277     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina45070070     Document Type: Article

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