A comprehensive situation assessment of injection practices in primary health care hospitals in Bangladesh

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chowdhury, A K Azad ^a   Roy, Tapash ^b   Faroque, Abm ^a   Bachar, Sitesh C ^a   Asaduzzaman, Muhammad ^a   Nasrin, Nishat ^a   Akter, Nahid ^a   Gazi, Hamidur ^a   Lutful Kabir, Abul ^a   Parvin, Masuma ^a   Anderson, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OBSERVATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BANGLADESH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOCUS GROUPS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OBSERVATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80053609629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-779     Document Type: Article

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