Needle stick and sharps injuries among health care workers in Gondar city, Ethiopia

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1093-1097

  Kebede, Getahun ^a   Molla, Mesafint ^a   Sharma, Hardeep Rai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Factors associated; Health care workers; Needle stick and sharps injuries; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENGINEERING CONTROLS; ETHIOPIA; FACTORS ASSOCIATED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; POST-EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEASURES; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING; SOURCE POPULATION; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORK EXPERIENCE;

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; NEEDLES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK PERCEPTION;

HEALTH RISKS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK EXPERIENCE;

EID: 84856450670     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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