BACKGROUND Ineffective communication of infection control requirements during transitions of care is a potential cause of non-compliance with infection control precautions by healthcare personnel. In this study, interventions to enhance communication during inpatient transfers between wards and radiology were implemented, in the attempt to improve adherence to precautions during transfers. ME...

background: universal precautions are not well understood or implemented by health care practitioners, though crucial in the prevention and transmission of blood-borne pathogens like hiv. objective: to assess knowledge, awareness and compliance of universal precautions among health care workers at the university hospital of the west indies, jamaica. method: a cross-sectional survey was conducte...

Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) has now become a global medical challenge. At any time, more than 1.4 million people worldwide acquire infectious complications in hospitals [1]. Rosenthal [2] reported the rates of device-associated infections ranging from 8.2 to 16.1 per 1,000 device-exposed-days in developing countriesat least 3 to 5 times higher than international standards. In a rece...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to evaluate the biosafety precautions that applied by diagnostic laboratories in Khartoum state, 2009. METHODS A total number of 190 laboratories were surveyed about their compliance with standard biosafety precautions. These laboratories included 51 (27%) laboratories from government, 75 (39%) from private sectors and 64 (34%) laboratories belong to organi...

This issue of the journal contains an important article by Perencevich et al. [1] describing the results of a mathematical model evaluating various measures for controlling the spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) among intensive care unit (ICU) patients. It concludes that active surveillance cultures and contact precautions for all colonized patients provide significantly better co...

OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of universal precautions among Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, medical students in their clinical years. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A self-administered questionnaire including 9 knowledge and 9 practice questions of universal precautions was used. A score was calculated for both knowledge and practice. These sc...

Scientists from various disciplines have begun to focus attention on the psychology and biology of human morality. One research program that has recently gained attention is universal moral grammar (UMG). UMG seeks to describe the nature and origin of moral knowledge by using concepts and models similar to those used in Chomsky's program in linguistics. This approach is thought to provide a fru...

Everett (2016b) criticizes The Phonological Mind thesis (Berent, 2013a,b) on logical, methodological and empirical grounds. Most of Everett's concerns are directed toward the hypothesis that the phonological grammar is constrained by universal grammatical (UG) principles. Contrary to Everett's logical challenges, here I show that the UG hypothesis is readily falsifiable, that universality is no...

AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to assess nurses' information-seeking strategies and problems encountered when seeking clinical guidelines on the Internet, and to investigate the criteria they apply when evaluating the guidelines and the websites communicating the guidelines. BACKGROUND As nurses are increasingly taking on clinical responsibilities, they should be able to use ...