healthcare workers
Development of plasma enhanced antiviral surgical gown for healthcare workers
... Risks of healthcare workers are contamination from various blood-borne pathogens due to occupational exposure to patients’ blood and body fluids. So the antibacterial testing was performed for the developed ...
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Risk Factors of Needlestick and Sharps Injuries among Healthcare Workers
... Identifying the prevalence and risk factors of NS- SIs in HCWs is important in implementing preventive strategies. Study of this kind can help rank the major unsafe practices leading to NSSIs. In addition, our study ...
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A qualitative investigation of healthcare workers’ strategies in response to readmissions
... of healthcare workers was conducted using the grounded theory ...34 healthcare workers (19 women, 15 men) to participate in individual interviews, either face-to-face or by ...how ...
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Correlating physical activity and quality of life of healthcare workers
... results, healthcare workers for the most part had low levels of PA, corresponding to those of the general Greek population [3], and from other Greek healthcare workers as well ...
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Perceived risk of tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers in Swaziland
... Tuberculosis (TB) constitutes an important proportion of the global disease burden. Nosocomial TB transmission has been well-documented worldwide, regardless of the local TB incidence, engendering a considerable risk of ...
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Screening for tuberculosis and prediction of disease in Portuguese healthcare workers
... Screening healthcare workers (HCWs) for latent tuber- culosis infection (LTBI) and active tuberculosis (TB) dis- ease is fundamental in infection control programmes in hospitals ...
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Prevalence of Clostridium difficile colonization among healthcare workers
... of HCWs and may have been biased towards those with no abdominal complaints, and therefore little C. difficile exposure. In addition, our study may have been under- powered to detect C. difficile colonization. Our ...
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Challenges and opportunities for healthcare workers in a rural district of Chad
... address healthcare problems (such as in case of stock-outs), which implies willingness to change and perform ...among healthcare workers and improve external relations and mutual ...line ...
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Prevalence of Hematuria among Emergency Department Healthcare Workers
... (ED) healthcare worker himself/herself may be well aware of the need to use the restroom, the thought may pass quickly due to his/her being busy and involved in the ...ED healthcare workers here in ...
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COVID 19: concerns and preparedness among healthcare workers
... One cannot expect victory over an enemy with only passion and obsession but enough armamentarium and manpower are a necessity too. It is to be taken into consideration that healthcare workers are working as ...
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A qualitative analysis of the Three Good Things intervention in healthcare workers
... NICU healthcare workers’ Three Good Things responses generated three key themes: (1) having a good day at work, (2) having supportive relationships and (3) making meaningful use of self-determined ...
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COVID-19 in Africa: care and protection for frontline healthcare workers
... of healthcare workers in the COVID-19 re- sponse in rural parts of the ...of healthcare workers was a key strategy in the Ebola epidemic, but testing constraints and lack of a vaccine hinders ...
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Organisational level interventions for reducing occupational stress in healthcare workers
... that healthcare workers have higher rates of substance abuse, depression, anxiety and suicide (Pyrek ...though healthcare organisations are actively implementing strate- gies to prevent and manage ...
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Burnout in healthcare workers
... 100 healthcare workers, 50 working in resuscitation, post-surgery intensive care (ICU) and post-transplantation units (“critical area”), and 50 in gen- eral medicine, allergology, eye sur- gery, and ...
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Attitudes and beliefs of healthcare workers about influenza vaccination
... for healthcare workers (HCWs) to contribute to influenza transmission among older adults in residential care settings (Lu et al 2013), vaccination among HCWs can be a critical second level of defence ...
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Work disability prevention in rural healthcare workers
... Possibly as a result of their higher exposure to certain workplace risks, there are also certain positive trends in workplace health and safety in rural areas, especially in terms of preventive measures. Indeed, ...
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Hand hygiene compliance among rural healthcare workers of Nepal
... Methods: This was a cross sectional observational study conducted in Makwanpur district, Nepal, during 2015. Healthcare workers from nine healthcare centers were selected randomly for the study. ...
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Clinical, economic, and humanistic burden of needlestick injuries in healthcare workers
... These searches identified 982 unique references. Inclu- sion criteria were studies that reported policy or clinical, economic, or humanistic outcomes of NSI or safety injec- tion devices on healthcare ...
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Are residential and nursing homes adequately screening overseas healthcare workers?
... One hundred and two questionnaires were returned; a 20% response rate, providing data on 475 overseas healthcare workers (HCW). A range of care home provid- ers responded, including both public and private ...
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Perceptions of Healthcare Workers Toward Influenza Vaccination
... all healthcare workers in the United States, healthcare workers were not 100% ...a healthcare facility in Florida were interviewed using an interview ...
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