Lucy Elliott writes about her experience of getting a needlestick injury on elective For my elective I wanted to go abroad and do something that would be different from anything I had experienced in medicine. I chose one of the world's biggest, busiest trauma centres in Cape Town, South ...
The Immunization Practice Advisory Committee (USA) recommends injection of polyvalent gammaglobulins when stick injury occurs with a needle used for a hepatitis C virus antibody positive patient, but the effectiveness of this protocol has not been demonstrated. Several preliminary studies suggest that ...
Cost - Effectiveness of Prophylactic AZT Following Neediestick Injury in Health Care Workers If AZT were given for all needlesticks without regard to the HIV status of the source, the costs of prophylaxis would rise substantially. It is ... SD Ramsey,MD Nettleman - 《Medical Decision Making ...
A Systematic Review of the Economic and Humanistic Burden of Needlestick Injury in the United States [ J ]. Am J Infect Control,2004,32 (3) :43.Lee J; Botteman M; Nieklasson L.A systematic review of the economic and humanistic burden of needle stick inju- ry in the United States....