universal precautions

Preferred Label : universal precautions;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : precaution, universal; precautions, universal; universal precaution;

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

Details

Origin ID

D016635;

UMLS CUI

C0085204;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Blood and fluids precautions (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Standard precautions (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Universal precautions (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Universal precautions education (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- infection control [MedlinePlus Topic]
MedlinePlus topic(s)
- infection control [MedlinePlus Topic]
Record concept(s)
- universal precautions [MeSH concept]
See also
- blood-borne pathogens [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Universal precautions (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]

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