BACKGROUND This study aims to determine side effects in healthcare workers receiving influenza vaccination, and to scrutinize the opinion of and attitude toward vaccination of healthcare workers. METHODS Five hundred forty-seven hospital personnel employed by the Eskişehir Yunus Emre State Hospital were included in the study which was conducted in November 2006,. Hospital personnel were admin...

Recent experiences with severe acute respiratory syndrome and the US smallpox vaccination program have demonstrated the vulnerability of healthcare workers to occupationally acquired infectious diseases. However, despite acknowledgment of risk, the occupational death rate for healthcare workers is unknown. In contrast, the death rate for other professions with occupational risk, such as police ...

BACKGROUND Much of the unskilled and semi-skilled workforce in Thailand comprises migrant workers from neighbouring countries. While, in principle, healthcare facilities in the host country are open to those migrants registered with the Ministry of Labour, their actual healthcare-seeking preferences and practices, as well as those of unregistered migrants, are not well documented. This study ai...

*Corresponding Author: [email protected] Abstract The aim of the study was to screening for coagulase positive methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in healthcare workers and prevalence of nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus. We included 84 healthcare workers’ samples (nasal swabs) in the study. Different biochemical tests were done to isolate Staphylococcus aureus...

BACKGROUND Needle stick and sharps injuries are occupational hazards to healthcare workers. Every day healthcare workers are exposed to deadly blood borne pathogens through contaminated needles and other sharp objects. About twenty blood borne pathogens can be transmitted through accidental needle stick and sharp injury. The study was conducted to determine the lifetime and past one year preval...

BACKGROUND Readmission of a patient to a hospital is typically associated with significant clinical changes in the patient's condition, but it is unknown how healthcare workers modify their provision of care when considering these changes. The purpose of the present study was to determine how healthcare workers shift their care strategies when treating readmitted patients. METHODS A typical c...

Management of Knowledge workers in healthcare is one of the key challenges being tackled for delivering quality healthcare services . Faced with a global shortage of skilled health workers, even developed countries are struggling to build and maintain an optimum Knowledge workforce in healthcare. India too has been experiencing acute shortage particularly so in rural areas. This paper attempts ...

Approximately 226,000 excess hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths occur each year in the US due to influenza-related illness.1 In addition to their own risk of disease, unvaccinated healthcare workers can transmit influenza virus unknowingly to high-risk patients prior to the onset of symptoms.1 Annual influenza vaccinations for healthcare workers can prevent workers from becoming ill and may dec...