Sharing insulin pens: Are you putting patients at risk?

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Schaefer, Melissa K ^a   Kossover, Rachel A ^a   Perz, Joseph F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; INSULIN DERIVATIVE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INSULIN PEN; INSULIN PEN SHARING; INSULIN TREATMENT; LETTER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SELF INJECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG ABUSE; INSULIN INFUSION; RISK; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN INFUSION SYSTEMS; INSULINS; NEEDLE SHARING; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891855649     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc13-1522     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

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5. Use of insulin pens in health care facilities [memo online], 18 May 2012. Baltimore, MD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Available from http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/ Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/downloads/ Survey-and-Cert-Letter-12-30.pdf. Accessed 8 July 2013