Percutaneous exposure incidents in nurses: Knowledge, practice and exposure to hepatitis b infection

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 186-190

  Mohammadi, Navid ^a   Allami, Abbas ^b   Mohamadi, Rasoul Malek ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Knowledge practice exposure hospital needlestick

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; IRAN; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NURSE ATTITUDE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; VACCINATION;

EID: 79955641591     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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