Open AccessNeedlestick injuries among healthcare workers: Why they do not report their incidence?
Author(s) -
Farahnaz Joukar,
Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei,
Mohammadreza Naghipour,
Mehrnaz Asgharnezhad
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.409
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2228-5504
pISSN - 1735-9066
DOI - 10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_74_17
Subject(s) - medicine , needlestick injury , odds ratio , health care , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , syringe , family medicine , infection control , vaccination , healthcare worker , universal precautions , hepatitis b , nursing , emergency medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , surgery , virology , psychiatry , physics , optics , economics , economic growth
Needlestick injuries (NSIs) among healthcare workers (HCWs) pose an important health challenge and several pieces of evidence show that in many cases HCWs do not report the injury.