Skip to main content
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal logoLink to CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
. 2000 Feb 8;162(3):344–345.

Education of medical students and house staff to prevent hazardous occupational exposure

C Doig 1
PMCID: PMC1231014  PMID: 10693591

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (164.4 KB).

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Aiken L. H., Sloane D. M., Klocinski J. L. Hospital nurses' occupational exposure to blood: prospective, retrospective, and institutional reports. Am J Public Health. 1997 Jan;87(1):103–107. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.1.103. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Cocchiarella L. A., Cohen R. A., Conroy L., Wurtz R. Positive tuberculin skin test reactions among house staff at a public hospital in the era of resurgent tuberculosis. Am J Infect Control. 1996 Feb;24(1):7–12. doi: 10.1016/s0196-6553(96)90047-4. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. DiBenedetto D. V. Occupational hazards of the health care industry: protecting health care workers. AAOHN J. 1995 Mar;43(3):131–137. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Gould D., Chamberlain A. The use of a ward-based educational teaching package to enhance nurses' compliance with infection control procedures. J Clin Nurs. 1997 Jan;6(1):55–67. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1997.tb00284.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Mangione C. M., Gerberding J. L., Cummings S. R. Occupational exposure to HIV: frequency and rates of underreporting of percutaneous and mucocutaneous exposures by medical housestaff. Am J Med. 1991 Jan;90(1):85–90. doi: 10.1016/0002-9343(91)90510-5. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. O'Neill T. M., Abbott A. V., Radecki S. E. Risk of needlesticks and occupational exposures among residents and medical students. Arch Intern Med. 1992 Jul;152(7):1451–1456. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Petrosillo N., Puro V., Jagger J., Ippolito G. The risks of occupational exposure and infection by human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus in the dialysis setting. Italian Multicenter Study on Nosocomial and Occupational Risk of Infections in Dialysis. Am J Infect Control. 1995 Oct;23(5):278–285. doi: 10.1016/0196-6553(95)90057-8. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Resnic F. S., Noerdlinger M. A. Occupational exposure among medical students and house staff at a New York City Medical Center. Arch Intern Med. 1995 Jan 9;155(1):75–80. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. Thompson S. K. The impact of a split-second error. CMAJ. 1999 May 4;160(9):1351–1351. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. Trovillion E., Murphy D., Mayfield J., Dorris J., Traynor P., Fraser V. Costs of implementing a tuberculosis control plan: a complete education module that uses a train-the-trainer concept. Am J Infect Control. 1998 Jun;26(3):258–262. doi: 10.1016/s0196-6553(98)80010-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal are provided here courtesy of Canadian Medical Association

RESOURCES