RESUMO
This study assessed knowledge, attitudes and practices of health-care providers towards waste management at Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. In this cross-sectional study 110 physicians, 151 nurses and 89 housekeepers were interviewed using a pre-designed questionnaire. Housekeepers were significantly more knowledgeable than physicians or nurses about hospital policies and systems for waste disposal, but less so about specific details of disposal. Housekeepers also had the highest overall scores for attitudes to waste disposal among the 3 groups. Significantly more nurses had satisfactory practice scores (84.0%) than did physicians (67.3%) (housekeepers were not assessed). Training and duration of work experience were not significantly associated with knowledge, attitude and practice scores, except for nurses with longer work experience, who were more likely to have satisfactory knowledge about waste disposal than less experienced nurses.
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Eliminação de Resíduos de Serviços de Saúde , Recursos Humanos em Hospital , Adulto , Estudos Transversais , Egito , Feminino , Hospitais Universitários , Zeladoria Hospitalar , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosAssuntos
Alcaloides/análise , Carcinógenos/análise , Óleos/análise , Alcaloides/toxicidade , Animais , Índia , Camundongos , PlantasRESUMO
A family of three suffering from Argemone oil poisoning was investigated. The effects of the oil and its toxic alkaloid sanguinarine have been discussed. A test for detecting sanguinarine has been described.