Sharps injuries in UK health care: a review of injury rates, viral transmission and potential efficacy of safety devices

1 December 2006

journal article
review article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Occupational Medicine

Vol. 56 (8) , 566-574
https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kql122

Abstract

Aims To review the literature on sharps injuries and occupational bloodborne virus transmission in health care in the UK and the worldwide evidence for injury prevention of sharps safety devices.

Keywords

EFFICACY
OCCUPATIONAL
BLOODBORNE
HEALTH CARE
VIRUS
SHARPS INJURIES
SAFETY DEVICES

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