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The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia
Background :Accidental needle-stick injuries (NSIs) are a hazard for health-care workers and general public health. Orthopaedic surgeons may be more prone to NSIs due to the prevalence of bone spikes in the operative field and the use of sharp orthopaedic instruments such as drills, saws and wires....
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Malaysian Orthopaedic Association
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279086 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1407.009 |
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author | Bhardwaj, A Sivapathasundaram, N Yusof, MF Minghat, AH Swe, KMM Sinha, NK |
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description | Background :Accidental needle-stick injuries (NSIs) are a hazard for health-care workers and general public health. Orthopaedic surgeons may be more prone to NSIs due to the prevalence of bone spikes in the operative field and the use of sharp orthopaedic instruments such as drills, saws and wires. A hospital-based cross sectional study was conducted in the orthopedic wards of Melaka General Hospital. The prevalence of NSIs was 32 (20.9%) and majority of it occurred during assisting in operation theatre 13(37.4%). Among them six (18.8%) were specialist, 12(37.5%) medical officer, 10 (31.2%) house officer and four staff nurses (12.5%). Among the respondents 142 (92.8%) had been immunized against Hepatitis B and 148 (96.7%) participants had knowledge regarding universal precaution. The incidence of NSI among health care workers at orthopaedics ward was not any higher in comparison with the similar studies and it was found out that the prevalence was more in junior doctors compared with specialist and staff nurses and it was statistically significant. KEY WORDS: Needle sticks injury, health care workers, and standard precaution |
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spelling | pubmed-41810762014-10-02 The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia Bhardwaj, A Sivapathasundaram, N Yusof, MF Minghat, AH Swe, KMM Sinha, NK Malays Orthop J Research Article Background :Accidental needle-stick injuries (NSIs) are a hazard for health-care workers and general public health. Orthopaedic surgeons may be more prone to NSIs due to the prevalence of bone spikes in the operative field and the use of sharp orthopaedic instruments such as drills, saws and wires. A hospital-based cross sectional study was conducted in the orthopedic wards of Melaka General Hospital. The prevalence of NSIs was 32 (20.9%) and majority of it occurred during assisting in operation theatre 13(37.4%). Among them six (18.8%) were specialist, 12(37.5%) medical officer, 10 (31.2%) house officer and four staff nurses (12.5%). Among the respondents 142 (92.8%) had been immunized against Hepatitis B and 148 (96.7%) participants had knowledge regarding universal precaution. The incidence of NSI among health care workers at orthopaedics ward was not any higher in comparison with the similar studies and it was found out that the prevalence was more in junior doctors compared with specialist and staff nurses and it was statistically significant. KEY WORDS: Needle sticks injury, health care workers, and standard precaution Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2014-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4181076/ /pubmed/25279086 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1407.009 Text en Copyright © 2014, Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bhardwaj, A Sivapathasundaram, N Yusof, MF Minghat, AH Swe, KMM Sinha, NK The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia |
title | The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their
Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic
Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia |
title_full | The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their
Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic
Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia |
title_fullStr | The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their
Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic
Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia |
title_full_unstemmed | The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their
Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic
Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia |
title_short | The Prevalence of Accidental Needle Stick Injury and their
Reporting among Healthcare Workers in Orthopaedic
Wards in General Hospital Melaka, Malaysia |
title_sort | prevalence of accidental needle stick injury and their
reporting among healthcare workers in orthopaedic
wards in general hospital melaka, malaysia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279086 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1407.009 |
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