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7579304

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-11-30
pubmed:abstractText
Fifteen NHS occupational health departments from the Wessex and Oxford regions took part in an audit of the management of sharps injuries and contamination incidents. Data were collected prospectively for a series of 1102 incidents notified over a nine-month period. The rates of notified incidents for each department ranged from 9 to 44 incidents per 1000 staff members per year. The proportion of injured employees who were naturally immune to hepatitis B or had completed a full course of vaccination against the infection ranged from 57 to 83%, with the main shortfall occurring in ancillary workers. Some departments rarely stored source serum, while others did so in the majority of cases. The proportion of cases where the injured person was known to have had hepatitis B antibody levels > 100 IU/l within the past 12 months, or underwent immediate antibody assessment or had an immediate vaccination against hepatitis B varied from 26 to 97%, with a median of 68%. On the basis of these findings, the audit group has set targets against which performance will be re-assessed in a follow-up exercise.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0962-7480
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
273-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Management of sharps injuries and contamination incidents in health care workers: an audit in the Wessex and Oxford regions.
pubmed:affiliation
MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comment, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't