HIV risks in the health care organization.
Health-care workers who sustain an accidental parenteral exposure to HIV are at risk of infection. Although only incomplete data are available to assess the risk, these data are reassuring. The most important lesson for health-care workers in the AIDS era is that nearly all risky exposures can and should be prevented. Greater emphasis on needlestick safety, control of infection in high-risk environments and improved devices and procedures can alleviate the vast majority of hazardous exposures.
Gerberding
J L
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Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco.
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000635:transmission; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D010361:Patients; D012307:Risk Factors