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Influence of Workplace, Location and Experience on Preoperative Routine Viral Screening Tests: A Post-Hoc Observation from an Online Survey

Habib Md Reazaul Karim, Tuhin Mistry.




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Introduction: Possible occupational exposure to Human Immunodeficiency type 1 and 2 (HIV-1/2), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) poses a great apprehension among the perioperative health care providers. Routine screening of these disease statuses is frequent, but it is unknown whether there is an influence of workplace, location, and experience on such routine screening.
Materials and Methods: The present analysis is a post-hoc analysis of a previously conducted online survey from February 2018 to April 2018. One-hundred-ninety responses (86.3% Anesthesiologists, rest surgeons) were analyzed; 88.9% were practicing preoperative viral testing routinely. The influence of workplace, location, and experience on such routine screening was analyzed using FisherÂ’s exact test; two-tailed p

Key words: Laboratory Tests; Anesthesia; Preoperative Assessment; Routine Testing; Infection, Viral; Screening;






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