INTRODUCTION: @entity580 are an important issue all over the world. The most important vector for transmitting @entity281 in a hospital are the hands of the medical personnel, which is why their adequate hygiene is an essential prevention method. THE AIM OF THE STUDY: was to evaluate the medical personnel's level of knowledge on the prevention of @entity580 transferred through direct contact. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The diagnostic survey method with a proprietary questionnaire was used for the research. The research was conducted between May and June 2013 on a group of 100 randomly chosen medical workers of one of Cracow hospitals (nurses, doctors and paramedics). The age of the interviewees ranged from 23 to 60 years old. RESULTS: Despite the fact that most of the respondents took part in courses related to @entity580 and declared the will to take part in more courses related to this issue, the level of knowledge of the medical personnel on the prevention of @entity580 transferred through direct contact and the post-exposure procedures is insufficient. Only 28.0% of the respondents knew that the dominant hand decontamination method according to WHO is disinfection, 22.0% of the surveyed medical personnel admitted that they put covers on needles after they performed the injection and 11.0% of the interviewees mentioned that they change the gloves before contact with the @entity1 only sometimes. CONCLUSIONS: The surveyed group has not demonstrated a sufficient knowledge of the rules of preventing @entity281 transferred through direct contact and the post-exposure procedures. The level of knowledge of the surveyed medical personnel was dependent on, e.g., years of experience and taking part in courses on @entity580 . KEY WORDS: @entity580 , prevention of @entity281 , hand hygiene.

Level of knowledge among medical personnel about XXXX transferred through direct contact - results of questionnaire survey.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patient'] @entity281 :: ('MESH:D007239', 'Disease') :: ['infections'] @entity580 :: ('MESH:D003428', 'Disease') :: ['Nosocomial infections', 'nosocomial infections']
@entity281 :: (MESH:D007239,Disease) :: ['infections']
