A national action plan to improve health literacy, unveiled in late May by HHS, identifies one potential solution: the so-called universal precautions approach used by infectious disease ...

I became an EMT before the adoption of universal precautions. It sounds ridiculously risky now ... It’s not like we thought we were immune out here, where there are more deer than people. It was just ...

To adopt universal precautions, health professionals should use the clearest language possible with everyone, regardless of their perceived health literacy skills.

A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology examined the impact of universal contact precautions on multidrug-resistant organism rates in intensive care units. They examined ...

AAAASF Interim COO Thomas Terranova spoke with Becker’s ASC Review about the organization’s second most cited deficiency which relates to Universal Precautions ... Typically, this can be proven out by ...