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Healthcare Workers' Attitudes and Compliance With Universal Precautions Gender, Occupation, and Specialty Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Donna B. Jeffe ,
Sunita Mutha ,
Paul B. L'Ecuyer ,
Lynn E. Kim ,
Renee B. Singal ,
Bradley A. Evanoff  and
Victoria J. Fraser
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Abstract

We describe variations in healthcare workers' attitudes toward double gloving and reporting needlesticks, and in their readiness to comply with double gloving and hepatitis B vaccine. Differences related to occupation, specialty, and gender have implications for the need to tailor interventions for specific groups of healthcare workers to improve compliance with Universal Precautions.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1997 , pp. 710 - 712
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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