ArticleJournal of public health policy2013
Health-care workers' perspectives on workplace safety, infection control, and drug-resistant tuberculosis in a high-burden HIV setting.
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- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to healthcare workers' adherence with infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines for respiratory infectious diseases: a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
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- Current Guidelines for Protecting Health Workers from Occupational Tuberculosis Are Necessary, but Not Sufficient: Towards a Comprehensive Occupational Health Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Perceived Health System Barriers to Tuberculosis Control Among Health Workers in South Africa.Annals of global health · 2020Article
- Nurses' Safety in Caring for Tuberculosis Patients at a Teaching Hospital in South West Nigeria.Journal of environmental and public health · 2020Article
- Caring for Tuberculosis Patients: Understanding the Plight of Nurses at a Regional Hospital in Limpopo Province, South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Difficulties in tuberculosis infection control in a general hospital of Vietnam: a knowledge, attitude, and practice survey and screening for latent tuberculosis infection among health professionals.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Tuberculosis infection control practices in a high-burden metro in South Africa: A perpetual bane for efficient primary health care service delivery.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2018Article
- Voices from the frontline: barriers and strategies to improve tuberculosis infection control in primary health care facilities in South Africa.BMC health services research · 2018Article
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Abstract
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is an occupational hazard for health-care workers (HCWs) in South Africa. We undertook this qualitative study to contextualize epidemiological findings suggesting that HCWs' elevated risk of drug-resistant TB is related to workplace exposure. A total of 55 HCWs and 7 hospital managers participated in focus groups and interviews about infection control (IC). Participants discussed caring for patients with drug-resistant TB, IC measures, occupational health programs, also stigma and support in the workplace. Key themes included: (i) lack of resources that hinders IC, (ii) distrust of IC efforts among HCWs, and (iii) disproportionate focus on individual-level personal protections, particularly N95 masks. IC programs should be evaluated, and the impact of new policies to rapidly diagnose drug-resistant TB and decentralize treatment should be assessed as part of the effort to control drug-resistant TB and create a safe workplace.
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