Investigation of eye splash and needlestick incidents from an HIV-positive donor on an intensive care unit using root cause analysis

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-150

  Batty, Lucia ^a   Holland Elliott, K ^a   Rosenfeld, D ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident investigation; Eye splash; HIV; Human factors; Intensive care; Needlestick; Occupational injury; Root cause analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EYE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRAINING;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; EYE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037348990     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg032     Document Type: Article

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