Impact of safety-engineered devices on the incidence of occupational blood and body fluid exposures among healthcare personnel in an Academic Facility, 2000-2014

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 497-504

  Kanamori, Hajime ^a,b,c   Weber, David J ^a,b   Dibiase, Lauren M ^a,b   Pitman, Karen L ^b   Consoli, Stephanie A ^b   Hill, James ^a,b   Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^a,b   Rutala, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BODY FLUID; CAPILLARY TUBE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DEVICE; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL BLOOD AND BODY FLUID EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY ENGINEERED DEVICE; SCALPEL; SKIN INJURY; SUTURE; SYRINGE; DEVICES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; INCIDENCE; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PHLEBOTOMY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BODY FLUIDS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PHLEBOTOMY; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84964255604     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.10     Document Type: Article

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