Impact of a single safety-engineered device on the occurrence of percutaneous injuries in a general hospital in Brazil

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 174-177

  Menezes, Jacqueline A ^a   Bandeira, Carolina S ^a   Quintana, Marcel ^b   De Lima E Silva, Julio C A ^b   Calvet, Guilherme A ^b   Brasil, Patrícia ^b  

^a Division of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology Department of Surgery   (Brazil)

^b Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood glucose testing; Health care workers; Nurses; Safety lancet

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GLUCOSE TESTING; HEALTH CARE WORKERS; NURSES; SAFETY LANCET;

BRAZIL; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; NURSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84895071259     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. US Food and Drug Administration. Safety alert: needlestick and other risks from hypodermic needles on secondary IV administration sets - piggyback and intermittent IV, 1992. Available from: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/ bloodbornepathogens/fdaletter.html. Accessed November 16, 2012.
2. US Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens; needlestick and other sharp injuries: final rule Federal Register 66 2001 5317 5325
3. S.Q. Wilburn, and G. Eijkemans Preventing needlestick injuries among healthcare workers: a WHO-ICN collaboration Int J Occup Environ Health 10 2004 451 456
4. Sharp regulations come into force. Available from: http://www. saferneedles.org.uk/?page=41&id=118&back=1. Accessed May 24, 2013.
5. Brazil, Ministry of Social Security. The safety of work in Brazil. Section I Statistics on workplace accidents [in Portuguese]. Available from: http://www.previdencia.gov.br/conteudoDinamico.php?id=1215. Accessed May 07, 2013.
6. Brazil, Ministry of Health, Health Surveillance Secretariat. National System of Health Surveillance. Status report: Rio de Janeiro. Brasília [in Portuguese]. Available from: http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/publicacoes/ sistema-nacional-vigilancia-saude-rj-5ed.pdf; 2011. Accessed May 07, 2013.
7. Brazil, Ministry of Labour and Employment. Directive N 485 from November 11, 2005. Ruling Norm N. 32 (Safety and Health in Healthcare Establishments). Daily Official Gazette, Nov 16 2005. Section 1 N219:80-94 [in Portuguese]. Available from: http://www.camara.gov.br/sileg/integras/726447.pdf. Accessed November 16, 2012.
8. Brazil, Ministry of Labour and Employment. Directive N 1748 from August 30, 2011. Daily Official Gazette Aug 31, 2011. Section 1:p. 143 [in Portuguese]. Available from: http://portal.mte.gov.br/data/files/ 8A7C816A31F92E65013224E36698767F/p-20110830-1748%20.pdf. Accessed November 16, 2012.
9. M. Whitby, M.L. McLaws, and K. Slater Needlestick injuries in a major teaching hospital: the worthwhile effect of hospital-wide replacement of conventional hollow-bore needles Am J Infect Control 36 2008 180 186
10. J. Jagger Using denominators to calculate percutaneous injury rates Adv Exposure Prev 6 2002 7 8
11. P. McCullagh, and J. Nelder Generalized linear models 2nd ed. 1989 Chapman and Hall/CRC Boca Raton 98 236
12. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows Version 16.0 2007 SPSS Inc Chicago [IL]
13. R Development Core Team (2012). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Available from: http://www.R-project.org/. Accessed February 26, 2013.
14. S. Sohn, J. Eagan, K.A. Sepkowitz, and G. Zuccotti Effect of implementing safety-engineered devices on percutaneous injury epidemiology Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 25 2004 536 542
15. W.F. Peate Preventing needlesticks in emergency medical system workers J Occup Environ Med 43 2001 554 557
16. M. Trapé-Cardoso, and P. Schenck Reducing percutaneous injuries at an academic health center: a 5-year review Am J Infect Control 32 2004 301 305