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Management of Needlestick Injuries
JAMA, 2012Since its identification in 1985, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has challenged several aspects of health care delivery. Because HIV is a blood-borne infectious disease, from the early days of the epidemic, concern was raised about risks of occupational exposures and infections among health care workers.
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Needlecaps to Prevent Needlestick Injuries
Infection Control, 1985AbstractHospital employees are at risk for numerous possible complications of accidental needlesticks. The mechanisms of such accidents suggest that many are preventable. This article presents a simple but novel revision of the needlecap which facilitates resheathing of a used needle.
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Reducing the risk of needlestick injury
British Journal of Nursing, 2008The increase of incident reporting in hospitals in recent years, and the way these incidents are dealt with, have contributed to patient safety becoming one of the hot topics of the early 21st century. An important and necessary issue to tackle, yes, but has the safety of nurses been cast aside in the pursuit of patient safety?
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Management of Needlestick Injuries
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2001R B, Ferreiro, K A, Sepkowitz
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Needlestick injuries: mechanisms and control
Journal of Hospital Infection, 1988Consideration of a linear model for venepuncture and patterns that emerge from the literature can help to understand the occurrence of occupational needlestick injuries which are common in healthcare workers. A systematic approach can also help in evaluation of potential control measures and in cost-benefit analysis.
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Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS, 2009
Needlestick injuries (NSI) occur very frequently in the health-care field and represent a very serious risk for health-care workers. It is estimated that 500,000 NSI occur per year in Germany. They are the most frequent cause of infections with blood-borne pathogens. Thus prevention is of decisive importance.
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Needlestick injuries (NSI) occur very frequently in the health-care field and represent a very serious risk for health-care workers. It is estimated that 500,000 NSI occur per year in Germany. They are the most frequent cause of infections with blood-borne pathogens. Thus prevention is of decisive importance.
Klaus, Kerwat +2 more
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Port-a-Cath Needlestick Injuries
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1993Fleerackers, Yon +3 more
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