Definition: Prudent standard preventive measures to be taken by professional and other health personnel in contact with persons afflicted with a communicable disease, to avoid contracting the disease by contagion or infection. Precautions are especially applicable in the diagnosis and care of AIDS patients.
restrict to "prudent prev measures" in contacts with patients having communicable dis; IM; coord IM with specific dis /prev (IM)
Other names Precautions, Universal; Universal Precaution; Precaution, Universal
