HEALTH-CARE WORKERS ATTITUDES AND COMPLIANCE WITH UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS - GENDER, OCCUPATION, AND SPECIALTY DIFFERENCES

Authors
JEFFE DB MUTHA S LECUYER PB KIM LE SINGAL RB EVANOFF BA FRASER VJ
Citation
Db. Jeffe et al., HEALTH-CARE WORKERS ATTITUDES AND COMPLIANCE WITH UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS - GENDER, OCCUPATION, AND SPECIALTY DIFFERENCES, Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 18(10), 1997, pp. 710-712
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Infection control and hospital epidemiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0899823X
Volume
18
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
710 - 712
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-823X(1997)18:10<710:HWAACW>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We describe variations in healthcare workers' attitudes toward double gloving and reporting needlesticks, and in their readiness to comply w ith double gloving and hepatitis B vaccine. Differences related to occ upation, specialty, and gender have implications for the need to tailo r interventions for specific groups of healthcare workers to improve c ompliance with Universal Precautions.