Infection Control Practitioners and AIDS

AIDS and HIV infection: ethical problems for general practitioners.

AIDS and HIV infection raise a number of important ethical issues and problems for general practitioners. The ethical issues which impinge most directly on the personal relationship between patient and practitioner are duty to care, consent and confidentiality. These issues, and some practical problems which are likely to be encountered by practitioners, are discussed with the help of case stud...

Infection control practices of general dental practitioners.

4 " 6 sodium hypochlorite, 4 and iodophor disinfectants. 16 In only one of these studies was a hydrogen peroxide compound tested. Saurina et al 4 tested 3% hydrogen peroxide against eight vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus fae-cium using a standard quantitative suspension test and found that insufficient kill occurred at the 3-and 10-minute test times. We too have tested not only E faecium (vanc...

Assessing Practitioners’ and Patients’ Needs Regarding Shared Decision-Making and Decision Aids

       Background: As part of the process of developing a decision aid for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) according to the Ottawa Decision Support Framework, we were interested in the level of ‘decisional conflict’ of hand surgeons and patients with CTS. This study addresses the null hypothesis that there is no difference between surgeon and patient decisional conflict with respect to test and tr...

Outcome competences for practitioners in infection prevention and control.

HIV infection and AIDS in England and Wales: general practitioners' workload and contact with patients.

In mid-1988 a postal survey was conducted of one in five general practitioners in England and Wales, to examine their contact with people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or with worries about HIV infection or AIDS. The response rate was 63.9%. Of the 3339 respondents 22.7% knew of an asymptomatic HIV positive patient within ...