Management of Healthcare Workers Who Are Infected with Bloodborne Pathogens

This updated document provides guidance on restricting the patient-care activities of such workers.

Target population: Healthcare workers involved with invasive procedures, infection-control departments, hospital epidemiologists, medical staff offices, academic training programs, and medical schools

Sponsoring Organization: Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

Type: Updated evidence-based consensus guidelines using a categorical rating system

Key points: The report in 1990 that an HIV-infected dentist had transmitted the virus to several patients raised intense public concern regarding healthcare workers infected with HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV). In response, the CDC issued general guidelines for HIV- and HBV-infected healthcare workers in 1991; in 1997, SHEA issued a position paper on the manage…

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Richard T. Ellison III, MD

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Consult/Advisory BoardAcurx Pharmaceuticals, LLC;

Grant/Research SupportDoctors Company Foundation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Richard T. Ellison III, MD

Disclosures

Consult/Advisory BoardAcurx Pharmaceuticals, LLC;

Grant/Research SupportDoctors Company Foundation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Management of Healthcare Workers Who Are Infected with Bloodborne Pathogens

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