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DOCN M94A0268
TI Hospital administrators' tolerance of staff needlestick injuries.
DT 9412
AU Treloar CJ; Malcolm JA; Sutherland DC; Berenger S; Higginbotham N;
Clinical Immunology Unit, John Hunter Hospital, New South Wales.
SO Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1994 May;15(5):307-10. Unique Identifier
: AIDSLINE MED/94358388
AB OBJECTIVE: To survey hospital administrators regarding their opinions of
an acceptable frequency of staff needlestick injury and the frequency
that would prompt additional preventive action. DESIGN: A simple
anonymous questionnaire sent to 960 administrators with one reminder.
Data were collected regarding hospital size and community role, whether
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients had ever been
treated, presence of an infection control practitioner, estimation of
the proportion of staff vaccinated against hepatitis B, and opinions as
to the acceptable frequency of needlestick accidents and the accident
frequency, requiring additional action. SETTING: 240 public hospitals in
New South Wales, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: The executive officers,
directors of medical services, directors of nursing, and safety officers
of the hospitals surveyed. RESULTS: The response rate was 50%.
Administrators' opinions of acceptable accident frequency increased with
hospital size and (independently of size) with experience with
HIV-infected patients, and with the presence of a full-time infection
control practitioner. Accident frequencies judged to require additional
preventive action were higher than injury frequencies regarded as
acceptable. CONCLUSIONS: The hospital administrators surveyed accept
staff needlestick injuries as inevitable, the more so in hospitals that
have treated known HIV-infected patients and that have full-time
infection control practitioners.
DE Accidents, Occupational/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA *Attitude of Health
Personnel Comparative Study Hospital Administrators/*PSYCHOLOGY Human
HIV Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY Infection Control Practitioners
Needlestick Injuries/*EPIDEMIOLOGY New South Wales/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Questionnaires Support, Non-U.S. Gov't JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).