The Impact of Multifocused Interventions on Sharps Injury Rates at an Acute-Care Hospital

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• Personal Author:
  Flanagan PA ; Gershon RR ; Grimes M ; Pearse L ; Vlahov D
• Description:
  To determine the impact of a multifocused interventional program on sharps injury rates. Sharps injury data were collected prospectively over a 9-year period (1990-1998). Pre- and postinterventional rates were compared after the implementation of sharps injury prevention interventions, which consisted of administrative, work-practice, and engineering controls (ie, the introduction of an anti-needlestick intravenous catheter and a new sharps disposal system). Sharps injury data were collected from healthcare workers employed by a mid-sized, acute-care community hospital. Preinterventional annual sharps injury incidence rates decreased significantly from 82 sharps injuries/1,000 worked full-time-equivalent employees (WFTE) to 24 sharps injuries/1,000 WFTE employees postintervention (P<.0001), representing a 70% decline in incidence rate overall. Over the course of the study, the incidence rate for sharps injuries related to intravenous lines declined by 93%, hollow-bore needlesticks decreased by 75%, and non-hollow-bore injuries decreased by 25%. The implementation of a multifocused interventional program led to a significant and sustained decrease in the overall rate of sharps injuries in hospital-based healthcare workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Engineering Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Needlestick Injuries Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Engineering-controls Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Injuries Injury-prevention Needlestick-injuries Work-practices
• ISSN:
  0899-823X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024586
• Citation:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1999 Dec; 20(12):806-811
• Contact Point Address:
  Robyn R.M. Gershon, MT, MHS, DrPH, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St, Room 8503, Baltimore, MD 21205
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19970401
• Source Full Name:
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
• End Date:
  20000929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7eee085413c15d404d0627e1c3d8c739fa0925f0594c9b85676ca09fd1d0cca3b4fad640a1c6c52185c098fb6b3982694c11913c00b67e2a6c9337278c708b56
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196328/cdc_196328_DS1.pdf
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