Abstract

THE KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICES STUDY OF GENERAL SURGEONS AND MEDICAL STUDENTS OF MEDICAL COLLEGES OF NORTH INDIA

K. B. Jain*, S. K. Gupta, Pratap Shankar, Dheeraj Singh, Sachin tutu, Preet Lakhani, Amod Kumar, R. K. Dixit

Abstract

There are so many chances to be infected by the hospital infections, during the operation procedure. During the operation procedure the surgeons, medical students and patients are on risk. So it’s a need for the health workers including all the doctors, medical student, nursing staff, patient etc. all should be aware about the infections caused in hospital by different means. Here in this study we performed knowledge, attitude and practices study for the standard precautions on the general surgeons and the medical students participating in surgery.

Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, KAP, Infections, Standard precautions.