Working awareness of healthcare workers regarding sterilisation, disinfection, and transmission of bloodborne infections and device-related infections at a tertiary care referral centre in north India

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-245

  Taneja, N ^a   Gill, S S ^a   Biswal, M ^a   Kumar, A ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Parwej, S ^a   Sharma, M ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; GLUTARALDEHYDE;

AUTOCLAVE; AWARENESS; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 77953543005     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.11.019     Document Type: Letter

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