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Journal of Occupational Medicine
and Toxicology
Open Access
Research
In-hospital contact investigation among health care workers after
exposure to smear-negative tuberculosis
Felix C Ringshausen*
1,2
, ... A, Nienhaus A, Schultze-
Werninghaus G, Rohde G: Contact tracing with an interferon-
gamma release assay in health care workers after exposure...
... group to have represented, if possible, is health
care workers living with HIV.
Periodically monitor stigma among health workers
One way to ensure that this happens is by enacting health
care ... discriminatory behav-
iour among health workers. Health facilities need to enact
policies that protect the safety and health of patients, as
well as health workers,...
... challenges that caregivers face when administering daily antiretroviral therapy to children.
This article describes an educational activity that allows healthcare workers to simulate this caregiver ... of adherence to antiretroviral medications is one of the key challenges for paediatric HIV care
and treatment programmes. There are few hands-on opportunities for healthcare workers...
... surface area as more atoms are reduced
onto the rough growth front, leading to the transition from
heterogeneous nucleation to homogeneous growth process.
The growth competition among the adjacent ... pulse deposition time, and thus the Sb
atoms have enough time to adjust themselves to a lower
energy position due to the increased delay time, leading to
the decrease in the length...
... science to healthcare: The first
gap arises in the translation of basic and clinical research into ideas and products; the second gap relates to introducing those ideas and products into
clinical ... next
challenge is to ensure the pathway operates efficiently and does not allow promising innovations to languish and to
provide a smoother transition for interventions to reach t...
... severity
did not contribute uniquely to health quality in any of the
multivariate models.
Cultural differences between countries do not appear to
contribute to health quality among patients with PSS. The
functional ... due to disability reported significantly more
pain, depression and cognitive dysfunction than those
who were employed (all p values < 0.05).
Health Care Ut...
... sensitive to episodes of pain in contrast to severity
of pain. Thus, as these results suggest, caregiver ability to
manage disease complications and treatment is integral to
adolescent adaptation to ... internalizing symptoms as mediator
were less strong than for PIP difficulty as mediator. There
was a trend to significance for BASC parent depression as
a mediator between primary...
... with regard to energy and
general health, limitations in function due to physical and
emotional reasons. The greatest mean differences between
parents were found on the vitality, general health and ... pain,
general health, vitality, social functioning, emotional role,
and mental health. Subscale scores are calculated accord-
ing to standard procedures, yielding score values of 0...
... suitable tool for use among adults with a locomotor disability
in Thailand. Further research is needed to validate the PIPP across different cultural contexts and
health conditions and to assess ... Functioning, Disability
and Health (ICF) was developed by the World Health
Organization (WHO) [1] to provide a standard, unified
language and framework to describe health and he...
... average
level of exposure to textile dust was assigned to the four
quartiles: low exposure (>0 to < 8,0 mg/m
3
-yr), medium
exposure (from 8,1 to 19,7 mg/m
3
-yr), high exposure
(form 19,8 to 64,7 ... and
estimated duration of exposure to textile dust [14]. Cumu-
lative exposure to total dust: (mg/m
3
year): ∑n
i
= 1
(C
i
*T
i
), where: C
i
= total airborne...