title: Proceedings of the Consensus Conference on Infected Health Care Worker Risk for transmission of bloodborne pathogens.
abstract: The Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) of Health Canada held a consensus conference on "Infected Health Care Workers: Risk for Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens", on November 20-21, 1996. A wide range of opinion was sought (see Appendix 1 for a list of participants). This document represents the consensus achieved at that meeting as agreed upon by the participants at the final "consensus achieving" session.
mesh_terms: D017848:Blood-Borne Pathogens / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D006515:Hepatitis B virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014342:Truth Disclosure