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Epidemiology of needlestick injuries among health-care workers in Awassa City, Southern Ethiopia.

Moges Tadesse1, Takele Tadesse.   

Abstract

Accidental needlestick injuries sustained by health-care workers are a common occupational hazard and a public health issue in health-care settings. An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted and 30.9% of health-care workers had experienced at least one needlestick injury in the previous year.

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Year:  2010        PMID： 20305110     DOI： 10.1258/td.2009.090191

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Trop Doct        ISSN： 0049-4755            Impact factor:   0.731


  19 in total

Review 1.  Factors Associated with Needlestick Injuries in Health Care Occupations: A Systematic Review.

Authors:  Hossein Motaarefi; Hosein Mahmoudi; Eesa Mohammadi; Ali Hasanpour-Dehkordi
Journal:  J Clin Diagn Res       Date:  2016-08-01

2.  Standard precautions: occupational exposure and behavior of health care workers in Ethiopia.

Authors:  Ayalu A Reda; Shiferaw Fisseha; Bezatu Mengistie; Jean-Michel Vandeweerd
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2010-12-23       Impact factor: 3.240

3.  Health Care Workers and Standard Precautions: Perceptions and Determinants of Compliance in the Emergency and Trauma Triage of a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India.

Authors:  Sangini Punia; Suma Nair; Ranjitha S Shetty
Journal:  Int Sch Res Notices       Date:  2014-10-29

4.  Prevalence of percutaneous injuries and associated factors among health care workers in Hawassa referral and adare District hospitals, Hawassa, Ethiopia, January 2014.

Authors:  Gudeta Kaweti; Teferi Abegaz
Journal:  BMC Public Health       Date:  2016-01-05       Impact factor: 3.295

5.  Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids among health-care workers in Serbia.

Authors:  Ljiljana Markovic-Denic; Natasa Maksimovic; Vuk Marusic; Jelena Vucicevic; Irena Ostric; Dusan Djuric
Journal:  Med Princ Pract       Date:  2014-11-01       Impact factor: 1.927

6.  Prevalence of needle stick injury and its associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia, 2016.

Authors:  Awoke Kebede; Hadgu Gerensea
Journal:  BMC Res Notes       Date:  2018-06-28

7.  Irrational drug use and its associated factors at Debre Markos Referral Hospital's outpatient pharmacy in East Gojjam, Northwest Ethiopia.

Authors:  Legese Melku; Muluken Wubetu; Bekalu Dessie
Journal:  SAGE Open Med       Date:  2021-06-12

8.  Assessment of Reporting, Attitudes and Knowledge About the Stab Incidents and Professional Risk of Viral Infection among Health Care Professionals in Primary Health Care.

Authors:  Sabina Becirovic; Nurka Pranjic; Selvedina Sarajlic-Spahic; Sead Ahmetagic; Senad Huseinagic
Journal:  Mater Sociomed       Date:  2013

9.  Needle stick injuries--risk and preventive factors: a study among health care workers in tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan.

Authors:  Asad Ali Khan Afridi; Ameet Kumar; Raza Sayani
Journal:  Glob J Health Sci       Date:  2013-04-14

Review 10.  Health-care workers' occupational exposures to body fluids in 21 countries in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Authors:  Asa Auta; Emmanuel O Adewuyi; Amom Tor-Anyiin; David Aziz; Esther Ogbole; Brian O Ogbonna; Davies Adeloye
Journal:  Bull World Health Organ       Date:  2017-10-13       Impact factor: 9.408
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