Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China

This cross-sectional survey assessed both risk and prevention of health care workers to bloodborne virus transmission in 2 hospitals in Beijing. The identified discrepancy between the high level of occupational blood exposure and suboptimal compliance with standard precautions underscores the urgent...

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Autores principales: Liu, Xiao-na, Sun, Xin-ying, van Genugten, Lenneke, Shi, Yu-hui, Wang, Yan-ling, Niu, Wen-yi, Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24581027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.12.002
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author Liu, Xiao-na
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spelling pubmed-71327822020-04-08 Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China Liu, Xiao-na Sun, Xin-ying van Genugten, Lenneke Shi, Yu-hui Wang, Yan-ling Niu, Wen-yi Richardus, Jan Hendrik Am J Infect Control Online-Only Article This cross-sectional survey assessed both risk and prevention of health care workers to bloodborne virus transmission in 2 hospitals in Beijing. The identified discrepancy between the high level of occupational blood exposure and suboptimal compliance with standard precautions underscores the urgent need for interventions to enhance occupational safety of health care workers in China. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2014-03 2014-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7132782/ /pubmed/24581027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.12.002 Text en Copyright © 2014 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China
title Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China
title_full Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China
title_fullStr Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China
title_full_unstemmed Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China
title_short Occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in Beijing, China
title_sort occupational exposure to blood and compliance with standard precautions among health care workers in beijing, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24581027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.12.002
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