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- Title
Hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and other blood-borne infections in healthcare workers: guidelines for prevention and management in industrialised countries.
- Authors
FitzSimons, D; François, G; De Carli, G; Shouval, D; Prüss-Ustün, A; Puro, V; Williams, I; Lavanchy, D; De Schryver, A; Kopka, A; Ncube, F; Ippolito, G; Van Damme, P
- Abstract
The Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board (VHPB) convened a meeting of international experts from the public and private sectors in order to review and evaluate the epidemiology of blood-borne infections in healthcare workers, to evaluate the transmission of hepatitis B and C viruses as an occupational risk, to discuss primary and secondary prevention measures and to review recommendations for infected healthcare workers and (para)medical students. This VHPB meeting outlined a number of recommendations for the prevention and control of viral hepatitis in the following domains: application of standard precautions, panels for counselling infected healthcare workers and patients, hepatitis B vaccination, restrictions on the practice of exposure-prone procedures by infected healthcare workers, ethical and legal issues, assessment of risk and costs, priority setting by individual countries and the role of the VHPB. Participants also identified a number of terms that need harmonization or standardisation in order to facilitate communication between experts.
- Publication
Occupational and environmental medicine, 2008, Vol 65, Issue 7, p446
- ISSN
1470-7926
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/oem.2006.032334