Trends of voluntary reporting of needlestick injuries and hepatitis B vaccination status among health-care workers of a tertiary health care center in Puducherry

BACKGROUND: Health-care workers (HCWs) can sustain needlestick injuries (NSIs) during patient care activities and are at a greater risk of exposure to blood-borne infectious agents such as HBV, HCV, and HIV, among which only HBV has an effective vaccine. Unfortunately, both the voluntary reporting r...

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Autores principales: Thiyagarajan, Mangaiyarkarasi, Ranganathan, Udhayasankar, Shivekar, Sunil, Rangasamy, Gopal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31929703
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_93_19

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31929703
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_93_19

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