Implication of the prevalence of needlestick injuries in a general hospital in Malaysia and its risk in clinical practice

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-41

  Lee, Lai Kah ^a   Noor Hassim, Ismail ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Malaysia; Needlestick injury; Prevalence; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODBORNE DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE;

EID: 14544308943     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.10.33     Document Type: Article

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