ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2015
Understanding the hospital sharps injury reporting pathway.
Article in American journal of industrial medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05199415 (Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Underreporting of workers' injuries or illnesses and contributing factors: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Individual and Organizational Level Barriers to Post-exposure Prophylaxis Uptake for Hepatitis B Virus Among Midwives in Northern Ghana: A Qualitative Enquiry.Health services insights · 2026Article
- Occupational exposure to Hepatitis B virus, disease burden and pathways for postexposure prophylaxis management: recommendations for healthcare workers in highly endemic settings.Infection prevention in practice · 2024Review
- Associations between patient safety culture and workplace safety culture in hospital settings.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Who do you ask? Predicting injury rates from survey responses.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2024Article
- National Survey of Sharps Injuries Incidence Amongst Healthcare Workers in the United States.International journal of general medicine · 2023Article
- Development, Pilot Study, and Psychometric Analysis of the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPSInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Associations between a safety prequalification survey and worker safety experiences on commercial construction sites.American journal of industrial medicine · 2020Article
- Literature Review of Policy Implications From Findings of the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Review
- The Gap Between Tools and Best Practice: An Analysis of Safety Prequalification Surveys in the Construction Industry.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2019Article
- Obscured by administrative data? Racial disparities in occupational injury.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient-care workers are frequently exposed to sharps injuries, which can involve the risk of serious illness. Underreporting of these injuries can compromise prevention efforts.
methodsWe linked survey responses of 1,572 non-physician patient-care workers with the Occupational Health Services (OHS) database at two academic hospitals. We determined whether survey respondents who said they had sharps injuries indicated that they had reported them and whether reported injuries were recorded in the OHS database.
resultsRespondents said that they reported 62 of 78 sharps injuries occurring over a 12-month period. Only 28 appeared in the OHS data. Safety practices were positively associated with respondents' saying they reported sharps injuries but not with whether reported injuries appeared in the OHS data.
conclusionsAdministrators should consider creating reporting mechanisms that are simpler and more direct. Administrators and researchers should attempt to understand how incidents might be lost before they are recorded.
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