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Needlestick injuries: a density-equalizing mapping and socioeconomic analysis of the global research

BACKGROUND: Needlestick injuries have caused a deleterious effect on the physical and mental health of millions of health-care workers over the past decades, being responsible for occupational infections with viruses such as HIV or hepatis C. Despite this heavy burden of disease, no concise studies...

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Autores principales: Groneberg, David A., Braumann, Hannah, Rolle, Stefan, Quarcoo, David, Klingelhöfer, Doris, Fischer, Axel, Nienhaus, Albert, Brüggmann, Dörthe
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32372129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-020-01547-0
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author Groneberg, David A.
Braumann, Hannah
Rolle, Stefan
Quarcoo, David
Klingelhöfer, Doris
Fischer, Axel
Nienhaus, Albert
Brüggmann, Dörthe
author_facet Groneberg, David A.
Braumann, Hannah
Rolle, Stefan
Quarcoo, David
Klingelhöfer, Doris
Fischer, Axel
Nienhaus, Albert
Brüggmann, Dörthe
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description BACKGROUND: Needlestick injuries have caused a deleterious effect on the physical and mental health of millions of health-care workers over the past decades, being responsible for occupational infections with viruses such as HIV or hepatis C. Despite this heavy burden of disease, no concise studies have been published on the global research landscape so far. METHODS: We used the New Quality and Quantity Indices in Science platform to analyze global NSI research (n = 2987 articles) over the past 115 years using the Web of Science and parameters such as global versus country-specific research activities, semi-qualitative issues, and socioeconomic figures. RESULTS: Density-equalizing mapping showed that although a total of n = 106 countries participated in NSI research, large parts of Africa and South America were almost invisible regarding global participation in NSI research. Average citation rate (cr) analysis indicated a high rate for Switzerland (cr = 25.1), Italy (cr = 23.5), and Japan (cr = 19.2). Socioeconomic analysis revealed that the UK had the highest quotient Q(GDP) of 0.13 NSI-specific publications per bill. US-$ gross domestic product (GDP), followed by South Africa (Q(GDP) = 0.12). Temporal analysis of HIV versus hepatitis research indicated that NSI-HIV research culminated in the early 1990s, whereas NSI-hepatitis research increased over the observed period from the 1980s until the last decade. CONCLUSION: Albeit NSI research activity is generally increasing, the growth is asymmetrical from a global viewpoint. International strategies should be followed that put a focus on NSI in non-industrialized areas of the world. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00420-020-01547-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-71998752020-05-06 Needlestick injuries: a density-equalizing mapping and socioeconomic analysis of the global research Groneberg, David A. Braumann, Hannah Rolle, Stefan Quarcoo, David Klingelhöfer, Doris Fischer, Axel Nienhaus, Albert Brüggmann, Dörthe Int Arch Occup Environ Health Original Article BACKGROUND: Needlestick injuries have caused a deleterious effect on the physical and mental health of millions of health-care workers over the past decades, being responsible for occupational infections with viruses such as HIV or hepatis C. Despite this heavy burden of disease, no concise studies have been published on the global research landscape so far. METHODS: We used the New Quality and Quantity Indices in Science platform to analyze global NSI research (n = 2987 articles) over the past 115 years using the Web of Science and parameters such as global versus country-specific research activities, semi-qualitative issues, and socioeconomic figures. RESULTS: Density-equalizing mapping showed that although a total of n = 106 countries participated in NSI research, large parts of Africa and South America were almost invisible regarding global participation in NSI research. Average citation rate (cr) analysis indicated a high rate for Switzerland (cr = 25.1), Italy (cr = 23.5), and Japan (cr = 19.2). Socioeconomic analysis revealed that the UK had the highest quotient Q(GDP) of 0.13 NSI-specific publications per bill. US-$ gross domestic product (GDP), followed by South Africa (Q(GDP) = 0.12). Temporal analysis of HIV versus hepatitis research indicated that NSI-HIV research culminated in the early 1990s, whereas NSI-hepatitis research increased over the observed period from the 1980s until the last decade. CONCLUSION: Albeit NSI research activity is generally increasing, the growth is asymmetrical from a global viewpoint. International strategies should be followed that put a focus on NSI in non-industrialized areas of the world. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00420-020-01547-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-05-05 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7199875/ /pubmed/32372129 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-020-01547-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Brüggmann, Dörthe
Needlestick injuries: a density-equalizing mapping and socioeconomic analysis of the global research
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title_short Needlestick injuries: a density-equalizing mapping and socioeconomic analysis of the global research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32372129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-020-01547-0
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