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The individual, environmental, and organizational factors that influence nurses' use of facial protection to prevent occupational transmission of communicable respiratory illness in acute care hospitals

BACKGROUND: Communicable respiratory illness is an important cause of morbidity among nurses. One of the key reasons for occupational transmission of this illness is the failure to implement appropriate barrier precautions, particularly facial protection. The objectives of this study were to describ...

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Autores principales: Nichol, Kathryn, Bigelow, Philip, O'Brien-Pallas, Linda, McGeer, Allison, Manno, Mike, Holness, D. Linn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18786451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2007.12.004