An 'Academic Detailing' Intervention To Decrease Exposure to HIV Infection among Health-care Workers.
This intervention aimed to decrease health-care workers' experience of automatic pilot (mindless functioning) when performing high risk procedures. An academic detailing visit resulted in a significant increase in compliance with safety guidelines and a decreased incidence of other unsafe practices among 80 health care workers of two hospital units. The effects of mindlessness on health behaviour may be far reaching and the model described in this paper can be used to develop appropriate interventions.
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW Australia.
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