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Challenges Facing Home-Based Caregivers in the Management of Health Care Risk Waste

2018-10-08

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The quadruple burden of diseases, early discharge from hospital and hospital at home have resulted in home-based care services becoming a requirement in South Africa. The home-based care services generate a significant amount of health care risk waste that is mismanaged. However, more attention is given to the health care risk waste generated in hospitals and clinics than to health care risk waste generated by hom...

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Literature Corpus work: f258d84c-0e5f-5119-8bd5-b721f5aa427f
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201810.0156.v1

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