Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids and associated factors among health care workers at the University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Yasin, Jemal ^a   Fisseha, Roman ^a   Mekonnen, Feleke ^a   Yirdaw, Ketsela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Blood and body fluids; Health care workers; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLUID; BODY FLUID; BODY FLUIDS AND SECRETIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIFESPAN; MALE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTION; VACCINATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BODY FLUIDS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85062719721     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12199-019-0769-9     Document Type: Article

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