Education and training for preventing sharps injuries and splash exposures in healthcare workers

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Cheetham, Shelley ^a   Thompson, Sandra C ^a   Liira, Juha ^b   Afilaka, Olugbenga A ^c   Liira, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c Aveley Medical Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84961908814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012060     Document Type: Article

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