The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act to revise the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) standard regulating occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, including the human immunodeficiency virus, the hepatitis B virus, and the hepatitis C virus, was signed into law on ...
Issues in understanding the impact of the needlestick safety and prevention act on hospital sharps injuries. Measuring the effect of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (NSPA) is challenging. No agreement exists on a common denominator for calculating injury... Elayne,Kornblatt,Phillips,......
Twitter Google Share on Facebook needlestick Medical Related to needlestick:Needlestick injuries needlestick (ˈniːdəlˌstɪk) adj (Medicine) (of an injury) caused by accidentally pricking the skin with a hypodermic needle Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Editi...
Actions taken by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to combat occupational infections in the country; Information on the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act in the U.S.; Risk percentage of occupational infections in the U.S.年份: 2001 ...
Conclusions: Occupational exposure to blood is a common problem among medical students. Efforts are required to ensure greater awareness among medical students about the risk of bloodborne pathogens. Proper training in procedures and how to act in case of injury should be offered to reduce the numb...
Institutional Liability for Needlestick Injury 来自 Cambridge Univ Press 喜欢 0 阅读量: 11 作者: Patricia M. Tereskerz,Richard D. Pearson and Janine Jagger 摘要: *** 关键词: occupational health service industrial accidents occupational diseases special medical examination trade union DOI: 10.23...
The requirement to provide safety-engineered devices, mandated by the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2000, has received scant attention in surgical settings. We analyzed percutaneous injury surveillance data from 87 hospitals in the United States from 1993 through 2006, comparing injury rates...
Measuring the effect of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (NSPA) is challenging. No agreement exists on a common denominator for calculating injury... C Val - 《Obstetrics & Gynecology》 被引量: 8发表: 2008年 Procedure-Specific Rates for Needlestick Injuries in Health Care Workers To...
H.R.5178 (the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act), enacted in 2000, was intended to protect a high-risk population from injury while performing routine, albeit hazardous procedures. This study quantified changes in hospital worker injury rates associated with the legislation. We employed a ...
the fact that the majority of US acute care facilities have now largely converted to the use of safety-engineered medical devices, after the first decade of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2000, a large number of nurses and other personnel still remain at serious risk of injury....