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Descriptor English: Universal Precautions
Descriptor Spanish: Precauciones Universales
Descriptor precauciones universales
Scope note: Medidas preventivas estándar prudentes que han de adoptar los profesionales sanitarios en contacto con las personas afectas de una enfermedad contagiosa, para evitar contraer la enfermedad por contagio o infección. Las precauciones son especialmente aplicables en el diagnóstico y atención de los pacientes afectos de SIDA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Precauções Universais
Descriptor French: Précautions universelles
Entry term(s): Precaution, Universal
Precautions, Universal
Universal Precaution
Tree number(s): N06.850.780.200.925
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016635
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: restrict to "prudent prev measures" in contacts with patients having communicable dis; IM; coord IM with specific dis /prev (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Previous Indexing: specific disease/prevention & control (1988-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 29758
Unique ID: D016635
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/06/20
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Universal Precautions - Preferred
Concept UI M0025354
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Universal Precautions
Entry term(s) Precaution, Universal
Precautions, Universal
Universal Precaution



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