Occupational injury history and universal precautions awareness: A survey in Kabul hospital staff

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Salehi, Ahmad S ^a   Garner, Paul ^b  

^a Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; QUESTIONNAIRE; VACCINATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AFGHANISTAN; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS;

EID: 77649277593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-19     Document Type: Article

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