Infection control knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1289-1296

  Tenna, Admasu ^a   Stenehjem, Edward A ^b   Margoles, Lindsay ^c   Kacha, Ermias ^a   Blumberg, Henry M ^c,d   Kempker, Russell R ^c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HAND DERMATOSES; HAND HYGIENE; HAND SANITIZERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MASKS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT ISOLATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84887601884     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673979     Document Type: Article

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