| Document ID (ISN) | 107548 |
| CIS number |
08-208 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0271-3586 - American Journal of Industrial Medicine |
| Year |
2007 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Chen G.X., Jenkins L. |
| Title |
Potential work-related bloodborne pathogen exposures by industry and occupation in the United States - Part I: An emergency department-based surveillance study |
| Bibliographic information |
Mar. 2007, Vol.50, No.3, p.183-190. 31 ref. |
| Abstract |
The objective of this study was to analyse the magnitude and distribution of blood-borne pathogen (BBP) exposures across all industries and occupations in the United States. Data were from the 1998 to 2000 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), a stratified probability-based sample of U.S. hospital emergency departments. An estimated 78,100 potential work-related exposures to BBP were treated in hospital emergency departments annually. While hospitals accounted for 75% of all these exposures, 11 other industries also had a substantial number of exposures. Registered nurses accounted for 36% of all exposures, but 13 other occupations had also a substantial number of exposures. Hospitals had the highest exposure rate of 11.3 per thousand full-time equivalents, followed by nursing homes (2.8) and residential care facilities without nursing (1.9). Registered nurses had the highest exposure rate of 15.3 per thousand full-time equivalents, followed by clinical laboratory technologists and technicians (13.9) and physicians (7.1). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
USA; biological hazards; needle-stick injuries; wounds |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
laboratory work; exposure evaluation; survey; computerized data bases; hospitals; health care personnel; emergency services |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Toxic and dangerous substances
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Biological hazards
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Biological hazards
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