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Effect of a Comprehensive Program to Reduce Needlestick Injuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Abdul B. Zafar ,
R. Christopher Butler ,
Judith M. Podgorny ,
Patricia A. Mennonna ,
Larry A. Gaydos  and
John A. Sandiford
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Abstract

The Arlington Hospital Needlestick Injury (NSI) Prevention Program was created to protect healthcare workers from NSI and to assess the effectiveness of our interventions. Interventions included revising NSI policy and procedures. The average NSI rate dropped from 109 to 43 per year after the interventions, over a period of 4 years.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1997 , pp. 712 - 715
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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