Abstract Background WHO has declared the COVID-19 as Pandemic on 11th March, 2020. It is important to break chain of transmission by quarantining persons with high-risk exposure. Understanding reasons for quarantine will help in reducing exposures and thus chances quarantine. Methods A validated risk assessment tool based National Centre Disease Control guidelines was used HCWs. The forms HCWs ...

Influenza vaccination of Health Care Workers (HCWs) is recommended by several health authorities worldwide aiming to prevent influenza, to reduce staff absenteeism due to illness and to protect vulnerable patient populations from the increased morbidity and mortality that influenza carries. However, despite recommendations and proven efficacy and cost effectiveness of influenza vaccine, vaccina...

Exposure to blood borne pathogens poses a serious risk to health care workers(HCWs).The first case of documented seroconversion after occupational exposure to HIV was reported in 1984.The average risk of HIV transmission after percutaneous exposure to HIVinfected blood is approximately 0.3%,however the risk believed to be higher for exposures involving and increased volume of blood or high vira...

BACKGROUND The UK Health Department circular HSC 2002/010 requires health care employers to test certain groups of health care workers (HCWs) for hepatitis C, without additional funding. Little is known about the consistency of implementation of such guidelines. AIM This study audited the process, completeness and problems of implementation of circular HSC 2002/010 in acute and ambulance trus...

BACKGROUND This survey assessed knowledge, attitudes, and compliance regarding standard precautions about health care-associated infections (HAIs) and the associated determinants among healthcare workers (HCWs) in emergency departments in Italy. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire, self-administered by all HCWs in eight randomly selected non-academic acute general public hospitals, comprised q...

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination coverage remains low among health care workers (HCWs) in many health facilities. This study describes the social network defined by HCWs' conversations around an influenza vaccination campaign in order to describe the role played by vaccination behavior and other HCW characteristics in the configuration of the links among subjects. METHODS This study used cros...

Traditional complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) has been reported to be commonly used among individuals with HIV and AIDS disease. However a lack of communication between health care workers (HCWs) and patients as well as between HCWs and TCAM practitioners has been identified as one of the challenges that may adversely affect treatment of HIV and AIDS patients. With improved and sust...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most common blood-borne pathogens transmitted from patients to health-care workers (HCWs). HCV infection status among HCWs and occupational blood exposure accidents were monitored to assess the risk of HCV infection among 403 HCWs from a single institution between 1999 and 2009. Additionally, HCV-related malignancies were evaluated in the HCV-positive HCWs....

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive health crisis affecting our planet, with over 166,346,635 confirmed cases and 3,449,117 deaths globally till 24 May 2021. which has brought enormous physical psychological pressure. Mental care for workers (HCWs), should receive serious consideration. aim of this study was to determine mental outcomes HCWs examine known predictors during th...