TAILIEUCHUNG - Knowledge attitude and practice of biomedical waste management among health care workers in a tertiary care hospital, Coimbatore, India

Advances in scientific development and research activities and patient care activities the amount of waste generated is increasing in amount day by day. About 10 to 25% of the hospital waste is considered hazardous and possess serious health threats. Lack of knowledge about proper segregation and disposal of the health care waste may cause various threats and hazards. All health care workers including doctors, nursing staffs, laboratory technicians, housekeeping individuals are working in our hospital. Observational Cross sectional study conducted in our hospital in November and December months of 2018. A total of 213 health care professionals were included in the study including 135 CRRI s, 63 Staff nurses, 10 lab technicians, and 5 class IV workers. Majority of the CRRIs () and Lab technicians () had good knowledge regarding the waste segregation and legislation of BMW management rules while only 25% of the class IV workers had good knowledge regarding the same. From our present study it can be concluded that the knowledge and awareness is less among the health care workers and inadequate and poor among the class IV workers. Frequent training sessions followed by the surveillance of their activities by a team would help to reinforce the importance of proper biomedical waste management. | Knowledge attitude and practice of biomedical waste management among health care workers in a tertiary care hospital, Coimbatore, India

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• Health care workers
• Biomedical waste management
• Tertiary care hospital
• Knowledge attitude
• Housekeeping individuals are working
• Hepatitis B virus
• Anti HBs titre
• Hepatitis B vaccination
• Staphylococcus aureus
• Methicillin resistance staphylococcus aureus
• Health care workers in a tertiary care center
• Prevalence of carriage
• BMC Pulmonary Medicine
• Health workers managing
• Fragile health system
• Health personnel
• Biohazard symbol
• Teaching hospital
• Practice among health care workers
• Health care workers on BMWM
• Health careassociated infections
• Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
• Health care worker
• Latent tuberculosis infection
• Healthcare workers
• Interferon gamma release assay
• Diagnosis of latent tuberculosis
• Needle stick injuries
• NSI prevention program
• Prophylaxis and treatment
• Bio medical waste
• Practises on biomedical
• Anterior nares
• High level mupirocin resistance
• Low level mupirocin resistance
• Methicillin resistant
• Needle stick injury
• Post exposure prophylaxis
• Knowledge of needle stick injury
• Lab technicians
• BMC Women's Health
• Childbirth behaviors
• Social capital
• Iranian women employees
• BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Low back pain
• Disabling condition
• Neuromuscular fitness
• Nosocomial infections
• Hand hygiene
• Health care associated infections
• Mobile phones
• Hospital acquired infections
• Spreading the hospital acquired infections
• Medical college hospital
• Multispecialty hospital
• Including trainee may help
• Chronic diseases
• Regular physical
• Public health
• Organisational climate
• Primary health care
• Psychosocial risk factors
• Sickness absence
• Workers’ health
• BMC Pediatrics
• Quality care
• Neonatal care
• Maternal care
• Patient provider communication
• Person centred care
• Newborn care
• Infant mortality
• Sex workers
• Sexual health
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Sexual health care efforts
• Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
• Different areas of cardiac
• MRSA carriage
• Nasal carriage
• Anti hbs antibody
• Cross sectional study for detection
• Delivery of health care
• Community health workers
• Evaluation studies
• World Health Organization
• Birth testing
• Point of care
• Postnatal care
• Treatment immediately