2012
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13523
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Underreporting of needlestick and sharps injuries among healthcare workers in a Swiss University Hospital

Abstract: Doctors performing IPs have high rates of NSSI and, through self-assessment that infection transmission risk is low or perceived lack of time, high rates of underreporting. If individual risk analyses underestimate the real risk, such underreporting represents a missed opportunity for post-exposure prophylaxis and identification of hazardous procedures. Doctors' training in NSSI reporting merits re-evaluation.

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“…Rates of detection are also low, for example, only 11% of glove perforations were detected by the physician in Presented at 1 st International Online BioMedical Conference a study investigating the use of blunt needles during obstetrical laceration repair surgeries. 11 The prevalence of under-reporting of needle stick injury in our study is 38.6% as compared to 58.6% as reported by Voide C et al and Darling Ke et al [13] , in Malaysia, it is up to 59% in a study conducted by Lee and Hashim et al in 2005 while a retrospective study done in the UK states that the degree of underreporting may be as much as 10-fold. [14] The majority of the study group in our study were under 25 years of age (63.9%)) and based on our results, the older age group is 2.7 times (1/0.37) more likely to get needle stick injury because of they have a longer career span as compared to those of a younger age group.…”
Section: Graph 1 Relationship Between Medical Profession and Prevalecontrasting
confidence: 43%
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“…Rates of detection are also low, for example, only 11% of glove perforations were detected by the physician in Presented at 1 st International Online BioMedical Conference a study investigating the use of blunt needles during obstetrical laceration repair surgeries. 11 The prevalence of under-reporting of needle stick injury in our study is 38.6% as compared to 58.6% as reported by Voide C et al and Darling Ke et al [13] , in Malaysia, it is up to 59% in a study conducted by Lee and Hashim et al in 2005 while a retrospective study done in the UK states that the degree of underreporting may be as much as 10-fold. [14] The majority of the study group in our study were under 25 years of age (63.9%)) and based on our results, the older age group is 2.7 times (1/0.37) more likely to get needle stick injury because of they have a longer career span as compared to those of a younger age group.…”
Section: Graph 1 Relationship Between Medical Profession and Prevalecontrasting
confidence: 43%
“…A Siberian study reported the prevalence of needle stick injury among medical student as 9.8% [11] and in the study conducted by Fernanda and Larissa et al in Brazil it was reported to be 20.9% [12] A recent study showed prevalence of needle stick injury is 19.9% in medical students and majority of it occurred at medical ward . [13] Lack of experience, increased workload and tiredness were the main reasons for the occurrences of needle stick injuries which are similarly observed in other studies involving medical students where it was noted that it is likely due to an increase in the number of procedures to be performed by the students as they progress through their semesters, inexperience in performing the medical procedures, increased workload and fatigue thus leading to needle stick injuries [14] . The medical doctors (MOs, and Hos) usually sustained needle stick injury either when they are assisting in the theatre or withdrawing blood.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 60%
“…Delayed measures in such cases could be partly explained by the underestimation by exposed HCWs of the transmission risk through splashes (24). The HCWs who experienced BBF exposures in autumn, as compared with other seasons, were more likely to postpone post-exposure prophylaxis measures.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During autumn, as a result of increased seasonal admissions, most hospital wards would face a shortage of HCWs and an increased workload. A perceived lack of time is highly likely to result in delayed post-exposure measures (24). A greater proportion of the hospital staff who worked in emergency departments and pediatric wards and sustained NSIs had delayed prophylaxis responses to the incidents; these delays were possibly due to the relatively higher workload in these wards and to the HCWs' considering the hospitalized children as low risk.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Crowded wards and rushed performances were the main human factors responsible for needlestick injuries, and studies conducted by Vahedi and Rakhshani also identified heavy workloads, rushed performance and the lack of precaution as the main factors contributing to needlestick injuries [6,10]. As for the time during which needlestick injuries had occurred, the results showed that the night shift (59.5%) exhibited the most frequent incidence of these injuries in the nurses, which is not consistent with the results obtained by Johnson and Connor and C. Voide, who reported the morning shift to exhibit the most frequent instances of the injury [16,17]. A possible reason for this disparity is the community and the environment that have been surveyed or the nurses' fatigue and sleepiness toward the end of the night shifts.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 78%