Prevention of percutaneous injuries with risk of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or other viral infections for health-care workers

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Parantainen, Annika ^a   Anthoni, M ^b   Hellgren, U M ^b   Lavoie, M C ^b   Valdes, A ^b   Verbeek, J H ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INJURY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 44949206636     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007197     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. Akduman 1999 Akduman D, Kim LE, Parks RL, L'Ecuyer PB, Mutha S, Jeffe DB, et al.Use of personal protective equipment and operating room behaviors in four surgical subspecialties: personal protective equipment and behaviors in surgery. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1999;20(2):110-4.
2. Ansa 2002 Ansa VO, Udoma EJ, Umoh MS, Anah MU. Occupational risk of infection by human immunodeficiency and hepatitis B viruses among health workers in south-eastern Nigeria. East African Medical Journal 2002;79(5):254-6.
3. Bryce 1999 Bryce EA, Ford J, Chase L, Taylor C, Scharf S. Sharps injuries: defining prevention priorities. American Journal of Infection Control 1999;27(5):447-52.
4. Campbell 2001 Campbell MK, Mollison J, Grimshaw JM. Cluster trials in implementation research: estimation of intracluster correlation coefficients and sample size. Statistics in Medicine 2001;20(3):391-9.
5. Castella 2003 Castella A, Vallino A, Argentero PA, Zotti CM. Preventability of percutaneous injuries in healthcare workers: a year-long survey in Italy. Journal of Hospital Infection 2003;55(4):290-4.
6. Chen 2005 Chen W, Gluud C. Vaccines for preventing hepatitis B in health-care workers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue Issue 4. Art. No.: CD000100. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000100.pub3.Art. No.: CD000100. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000100.pub3.
7. Clarke 2002 Clarke SP, Rockett JL, Sloane DM, Aiken LH. Organizational climate, staffing, and safety equipment as predictors of needlestick injuries and near-misses in hospital nurses. American Journal of Infection Control 2002;30(4):207-16.
8. Doebbeling 2003 Doebbeling BN, Vaughn TE, McCoy KD, Beekmann SE, Woolson RF, Ferguson KJ, et al.Percutaneous injury, blood exposure, and adherence to standard precautions: are hospital-based health care providers still at risk?. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2003;37(8):1006-13.
9. Downs 1998 Downs SH, Black N. The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1998;52(6):377-84.
10. Ellenbecker 1996 Ellenbecker MJ. Engineering controls as an intervention to reduce worker exposure. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 1996;29(4):303-7.
11. EPOC 2006 The Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group (EPOC). Including interrupted time series (ITS) designs in a EPOC review. http://www.epoc.uottawa.ca/inttime.pdf (accessed 5 September 2006).
12. Fisman 2002 Fisman DN, Mittleman AM, Sorock GS, Harris AD. Willingness to pay to avoid sharps-related injuries: a study in injured health care workers. American Journal of Infection Control 2002;30(5): 283-7.
13. Fisman 2007 Fisman DN, Harris AD, Rubin M, Sorock GS, Mittleman AM. Fatigue increases the risk of injury from sharp devices in medical trainees: results from a case-crossover study. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2007;28(1):10-7.
14. Gluud 2008 Gluud C, Nikolova D, Klingenberg SL, Whitfield K, Alexakis N, Als-Nielsen B, et al.Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group. About The Cochrane Collaboration (Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs)) 2008, Issue 1. Art. No.: LIVER.
15. Higgins 2006 Higgins JPT, Green S, editors. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 4.2.6 [updated September 2006]. The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 2006.
16. Ilhan 2006 Ilhan MN, Durukan E, Aras E, Turkcuoglu S, Aygun R. Long working hours increase the risk of sharp and needlestick injury in nurses: the need for new policy implication. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2006;56(5):563-8.
17. Kjaergard 2001 Kjaerdard LL, Villumsen J, Gluud C. Reported methodologic quality and discrepancies between large and small randomized trials in meta-analyses. Annals of Internal Medicine 2001;135:982-9.
18. Mast 2004 Mast E, Mahoney F, Kane M, Margolis H. Hepatitis B vaccines. In: PlotkinOW editor(s). Vaccines. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2004:299-337.
19. Moher 1998 Moher D, Pham B, Jones A, Cook DJ, Jadad AR, Moher M, et al.Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses?. The Lancet 1998;352:609-13.
20. Oh 2005 Oh HS, Yi SE, Choe KW. Epidemiological characteristics of occupational blood exposures of healthcare workers in a university hospital in South Korea for 10 years. Journal of Hospital Infection 2005;60(3):269-75.
21. Orji 2002 Orji EO, Fasubaa OB, Onwudiegwu U, Dare FO, Ogunniyi SO. Occupational health hazards among health care workers in an obstetrics and gynaecology unit of a Nigerian teaching hospital. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2002;22(1):75-8.
22. Pruss-Ustun 2005 Pruss-Ustun A, Rapiti E, Hutin Y. Estimation of the global burden of disease attributable to contaminated sharps injuries among healthcare workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2005;48(6):482-90.
23. Ramsay 2001 Ramsay C. Robust methods for analysis of interrupted time series designs for inclusion in systematic reviews. Proceedings of the ninth Annual Cochrane Colloquium; 2001; Lyon. 2001.
24. Ramsay 2003 Ramsay CR, Matowe L, Grilli R, Grimshaw JM, Thomas RE. Interrupted time series designs in health technology assessment: lessons from two systematic reviews of behavior change strategies. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2003;19(4):613-23.
25. RevMan 2003 RevMan. Review Manager (RevMan). 4.2 for Windows. Copenhagen: The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration, 2003.
26. Roberts 1999 Roberts RB, Lincoff AS, Frankel RE. Occupational exposure to HIV in an urban university hospital setting. Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases 1999;3(2):50-62.
27. Robinson 2002 Robinson KA, Dickersin K. Development of a highly sensitive search strategy for the retrieval of reports of controlled trials using PubMed. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31(1): 150-3.
28. Roelofs 2003 Roelofs CR, Barbeau EM, Ellenbecker MJ, Moure-Eraso R. Prevention strategies in industrial hygiene: a critical literature review. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 2003;64(1):62-7.
29. Ropero 2005 Ropero AM, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Andrus JK. Progress in vaccination against hepatitis B in the Americas. Journal of Clinical Virology 2005;34(S2):S14-9.
30. Royle 2003 Royle P, Milne R. Literature searching for randomized controlled trials used in Cochrane reviews: rapid versus exhaustive searches. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2003;19(4):591-603.
31. Schulz 1995 Schultz KF, Chalmers I, Hayes RJ, Altman DG. Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials. JAMA 1995;273:408-12.
32. Smith 2006 Smith DR, Choe MA, Jeong JS, Jeon MY, Chae YR, An GJ. Epidemiology of needlestick and sharps injuries among professional Korean nurses. Journal of Professional Nursing 2006;22(6):359-66.
33. Smith 2006b Smith DR, Mihashi M, Adachi Y, Nakashima Y, Ishitake T. Epidemiology of needlestick and sharps injuries among nurses in a Japanese teaching hospital. Journal of Hospital Infection 2006;64(1):44-9.
34. Sohn 2006 Sohn JW, Kim BG, Kim SH, Han C. Mental health of healthcare workers who experience needlestick and sharps injuries. Journal of Occupational Health 2006;48(6):474-9.
35. Verbeek 2005 Verbeek J, Salmi J, Pasternack I, Jauhiainen M, Laamanen I, Schaafsma F, et al.A search strategy for occupational health intervention studies. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2005;62(10):682-7.
36. Waclawski 2004 Waclawski ER. Evaluation of potential reduction in blood and body fluid exposures by use of alternative instruments. Occupational Medicine 2004;54(8):567-9.
37. Wallis 2007 Wallis GC, Kim WY, Chaudhary BR, Henderson JJ. Perceptions of orthopaedic surgeons regarding hepatitis C viral transmission: a questionnaire survey. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2007;89(3):276-80.
38. WHO 2007 World Health Organization. Needlestick injuries: implementation of pilot projects to reduce sharps injuries in health care workers. http://www.who.int/occupational_health/topics/needinjuries/en/index. html (Accessed 5 September 2007).