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Article: CDC emphasizes risk assessment for HCWs. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health care workers, preventing tuberculosis transmission)
- Article from:
- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 A Thomson Healthcare Company. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A draft of new federal guidelines for preventing tuberculosis transmission in health care facilities re-emphasizes the need for a stringent hierarchy of control measures that include risk assessment, engineering controls, respirator use, and health care worker education in the arsenal of TB eradication.
The guidelines were published in the Oct. 12, 1993 Federal Register.[1] They update the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 1990 guidelines for TB control in health care facilities.[2] If adopted after a 60-day comment period, they will be published in the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report.
Despite their comprehensiveness, the ...