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Universal Precautions  

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Entry terms

  • Precautions, Universal
  • Precaution, Universal
  • Universal Precaution

Note

  • restrict to "prudent prev measures" in contacts with patients having communicable dis; IM; coord IM with specific dis /prev (IM)

Scope note

  • Prudent standard preventive measures to be taken by professional and other health personnel in contact with persons afflicted with a communicable disease, to avoid contracting the disease by contagion or infection. Precautions are especially applicable in the diagnosis and care of AIDS patients.

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  • 92

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016635

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