Healthcare workers (HCWs)
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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Lack of transmission among healthcare workers in contact with a case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection in Thailand
... to healthcare facilities [8]. The number of healthcare workers (HCWs) acquiring the infection might have resulted from poor infection control measures [5, ...
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The perceived effectiveness of MERS CoV educational programs and knowledge transfer among primary healthcare workers: a cross sectional survey
... Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS- CoV) has created an epidemiological and clinical crisis within 27 countries in North Africa, Europe, Asia and the USA but mainly in the Middle East (Kingdom of Saudi ...
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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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Influenza vaccination among Malaysian healthcare workers: a survey of coverage and attitudes
... to healthcare workers (HCWs) and patients, with HCWs considered as potential vectors for spreading the virus within healthcare ...
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Use of smartphone and perception towards the usefulness and practicality of its medical applications among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia
... in healthcare was reported by less than one-half of all healthcare ...in healthcare was predicted by only the level of perception of HCWs towards the practi- cality and usefulness of its ...by ...
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MRSA screening and spa gene detection in isolates from healthcare workers at ophthalmology hospital in Egypt
... among healthcare workers (HCWs) in the Hospital of the Research Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO), Giza, Egypt, and detecting spa gene in their DNAs by ...
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Tuberculin skin test and Quantiferon test agreement and influencing factors in tuberculosis screening of healthcare workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... of healthcare workers with a highly heterogeneous definition of ‘health- care worker’ that included both occupational groups with a potentially increased risk and groups without any contact with ...
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The TransFLUas influenza transmission study in acute healthcare recruitment rates and protocol adherence in healthcare workers and inpatients
... among healthcare workers (HCWs), nosocomial acquisition of influenza is a well-known patient safety issue, and outbreaks of influ- enza are common in both acute and long-term care ...and HCWs ...
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Evaluating healthcare workers needs and empowering them during pandemics
... are healthcare workers ...[15]. Healthcare workers are in direct contact with the patient before the arrival of diagnostic results, making them prone to ...
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Tuberculosis infection risk, preventive therapy care cascade and incidence of tuberculosis disease in healthcare workers at Maputo Central Hospital
... 3679 workers at least 18 years old, working at MCH for at least two years were invited to ...777 healthcare workers who responded, 758 were eligible and provided informed ...
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Use of low-dose computed tomography to assess pulmonary tuberculosis among healthcare workers in a tuberculosis hospital
... annually. Some of the young HCWs with relatively few years of employment and those working in low-risk areas may not have participated in the annual physical examinations. This fact may have influenced the deter- ...
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Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in healthcare workers at a hospital in Naples, Italy, a low-incidence country
... on HCWs conducted in Italy and other low-incidence countries, the preva- lences of TB and LTBI varied depending on the coun- try and the type of population sample ...1,755 HCWs in Italy in 2004, diagnosing ...
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Hepatitis B vaccination coverage among healthcare workers at a tertiary hospital in Rwanda
... all HCWs and medical students who were born after the year 2002 when hepa- titis B vaccine was introduced in the expanded program of immunization ...as HCWs, represent a group in which post vac- cination ...
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Using IFN-gamma release assay to confirm tuberculin skin test improves the screening of latent tuberculosis infection in Italian healthcare workers
... the HCWs had reported a his- tory of BCG vaccination, while ...of HCWs were nurses) did not represent putative risk factors for a positive QFT-GIT test (Table ...
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MRSA carriage among healthcare workers in non outbreak settings in Europe and the United States: a systematic review
... in HCWs var- ies widely over a range between under 1% and ...among HCWs are much higher than among community members without known risk factors (around ...among HCWs in the United States than in ...
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Post Exposure Prophylaxis against HBV and HIV Infection in Health Care Workers
... Introduction Healthcare Workers HCWs are constantly at risk of exposure to viral infections such as hepatitis B virus HBV, human immune deficiency virus HIV and hepatitis C virus HCV thr[r] ...
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Quantifying the relative impact of contact heterogeneity on MRSA transmission in ICUs a modelling study
... Mathematical models have been successfully applied to evaluate the transmission of HAIs [12, 13]. However, most of these studies assumed homogeneous mixing of surfaces, which cannot reproduce the intricacies of sur- face ...
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Pathogenic microbes contaminating mobile phones in hospital environment in Northeast India: incidence and antibiotic resistance
... ciprofloxacin [12]. This can be attributed to the fact that the carbapenems such as imipenem and meropenem are reserved drugs which are seldom used, unless needed, and hence, GNB showed good susceptibility (100%) to- ...
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... most healthcare workers (HCWs), colonization rarely leads to ...However, HCWs have been identified as the source of MRSA in numerous outbreak investigations ...by HCWs, with 50% of the ...
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