Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids among health-care workers in Serbia

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-41

  Markovic Denic, Ljiljana ^a   Maksimovic, Natasa ^a   Marusic, Vuk ^a   Vucicevic, Jelena ^b   Ostric, Irena ^a   Djuric, Dusan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Health Center   (Serbia)

^c University of Kragujevac Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Body fluids; Health care workers; Needlestick injuries; Occupational exposure; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY FLUID; CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MUCOSA; NEEDLE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOM; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECONDARY CARE CENTER; SELF REPORT; SERBIA; SKIN INJURY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; WARD; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BODY FLUIDS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SERBIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921435446     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000368234     Document Type: Article

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