tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Am J Infect Control. 2012 Mar 21. [Epub ahead of print]
Oseltamivir adherence and tolerability in health care workers treated prophylactically after occupational influenza exposure.
Upjohn LM, Stewardson AJ, Marshall C.
Source
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract
This survey of health care workers who were prescribed oseltamivir prophylaxis after occupational exposure to 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) documents their adherence, adverse effects, development of influenza-like illness, and knowledge and beliefs about the treatment and transmission of influenza. Adverse effects occurred in 15 of 36 participants evaluated (41.6%). The majority of the participants understood that influenza is highly infective and would take oseltamivir again, although 40.5% (15 of 37) thought they had not been given sufficient information about adverse effects.
Copyright © 2012 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.
PMID:
22440528
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22440528
Oseltamivir adherence and tolerability in health care workers treated prophylactically after occupational influenza exposure.
Upjohn LM, Stewardson AJ, Marshall C.
Source
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract
This survey of health care workers who were prescribed oseltamivir prophylaxis after occupational exposure to 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) documents their adherence, adverse effects, development of influenza-like illness, and knowledge and beliefs about the treatment and transmission of influenza. Adverse effects occurred in 15 of 36 participants evaluated (41.6%). The majority of the participants understood that influenza is highly infective and would take oseltamivir again, although 40.5% (15 of 37) thought they had not been given sufficient information about adverse effects.
Copyright © 2012 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.
PMID:
22440528
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22440528