Health Care

Universal Precautions

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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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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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Precautions, Universal
  • Precaution, Universal
  • Universal Precaution

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

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

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92

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  • specific disease/prevention & control (1988-1991)

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  1. N06.850w.780.200.925w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Universal Precautions. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016635. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016635
  2. Universal Precautions. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_precautions
  3. Universal Precautions. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7894153