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Healthcare workers' attitudes and compliance with universal precautions: gender, occupation, and specialty
D B Jeffe1, S Mutha, P B L'Ecuyer
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|November 14, 1997
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.