The risk of occupational exposure and infection with infectious disease (Part I)
The variety of potentially infectious agents that frequent the health care environment is indeed large. As a result, health care workers are at some degree of risk for exposure to a variety of infectious diseases. However, as healthy individuals, we can protect ourselves quite successfully by follow...
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| Published in: | Home care provider Vol. 3; no. 5; pp. 251 - 252 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier Inc
01-10-1998
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The variety of potentially infectious agents that frequent the health care environment is indeed large. As a result, health care workers are at some degree of risk for exposure to a variety of infectious diseases. However, as healthy individuals, we can protect ourselves quite successfully by following the guidelines that govern personal hygiene and immunization and adhering to accepted infection control standards of patient care, disinfection, antisepsis, and disease isolation. A clear understanding of the mechanisms of disease transmission is also important in this regard. |
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| ISSN: | 1084-628X 1535-9336 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S1084-628X(98)90190-3 |