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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

In health care, universal precautions are "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."^[1]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published details on universal precautions in health care.^[2][3]

References

1. ↑ Anonymous, (2008) Universal precautions (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
2. ↑ (June 1988) "Update: universal precautions for prevention of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens in health-care settings". MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. 37 (24): 377–82, 387–8. PMID 2836717.
3. ↑ Anonymous (1988). Perspectives in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Update: Universal Precautions for Prevention of Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, and Other Bloodborne Pathogens in Health-Care Settings. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.