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ReviewJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2016

Factors Associated with Needlestick Injuries in Health Care Occupations: A Systematic Review.

Hossein Motaarefi, Hosein Mahmoudi, Eesa Mohammadi, Ali Hasanpour-Dehkordi

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Review in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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56citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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56 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hossein MotaarefiPhD Nursing Student, Trauma Research Center and Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran & Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Urmia University of Medical Sciences , Urmia, Iran .
Hosein MahmoudiAssociate Professor, Trauma Research Center and Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, IR Iran .
Eesa MohammadiProfessor, Department of Nursing, College of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University , Tehran, Iran .
Ali Hasanpour-DehkordiAssistant Professor, Department of Medical- surgical Nursing and Nursing and Midwifery Holistic Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences , Shahrekord, IR Iran .
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionNeedlestick and sharps injuries (NSIs), are among the main job-related injuries that health care workers experience. In fact, contraction of hepatitis B or hepatitis C from work-related NSIs is one of the most common occupational hazards among health care workers.

aimThe aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with NSIs in health care occupation. MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this study, a systematic and purposive review with emphasis on the research question was run to retrieve, evaluate and consolidate the required information. The following four key words were used to search for the relevant articles published from January 1998 to May 2015: NSI health care workers, risk factor and factors associated, in Science direct, EBSCO Host, PubMed, ProQuest, SID and Cochrane Library. Several steps of evaluation were taken to select and analyse the full texts of relevant articles. According to the inclusion criteria, we finally selected 11 articles from the 18642 retrieved articles.

resultsThe data of the analysed articles indicated that the highest incidence of NSIs was seen in nurses and that the associated factors were age, level of education, number of shifts per month and history of related training. The highest rate of NSIs was related to instrument preparation followed by injection and recapping of used needles. Findings show that health care workers suffer a high rate of needlestick injuries.

conclusionIt was seen that device, location, or action cannot be separately considered as responsible for all types of the NSIs. Rather, each of them has a contribution to the NSIs. Nevertheless, factors with higher frequency should be given a higher priority.

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Blood and body fluidsOccupational healthRisk factorsSharps injuries

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PMID27656466
PMCPMC5028444
OpenAlexW2511085613

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