Incidence of sharps injuries in surgical units, a meta-analysis and meta-regression

Verbeek, Jos; Basnet, Prativa

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2018.10.003

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“…Focusing on operating rooms, biological risk perception is often related to sharp and jagged surgical tools and contamination with patients' blood, especially in open surgery. In a 2019 meta-analysis, it was shown that the sharps injury rate in the surgical area was about 1 in 10 operations [36]. Although many workers have the perception of the biological agents in their workplace settings, and thus on the related risk, knowledge on this issue is still lacking, suggesting the need for specific biological risk training to reduce this lack and improve health and safety.…”

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Assessing Risks Awareness in Operating Rooms among Post-Graduate Students: A Pilot Study

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Background: In this study, we promote a global approach to occupational risk perception in order to improve occupational health and safety training programs. The study investigates the occupational risk perception of operating room healthcare workers using an Analytic Hierarchy Process approach. Methods: A pilot study was carried out through a cross-sectional survey in a university hospital in Southern Italy. An ad hoc questionnaire was administered to enrolled medical post-graduate students working in the operating room. Results: Fifty medical specialists from seven fields (anaesthetists, digestive system surgeons, general surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, thoracic surgeons, urologists, and gynaecologists) were questioned about perceived occupational risk by themselves. Biological, ionizing radiation, and chemical risks were the most commonly perceived in order of priority (w = 0.300, 0.219, 0.210). Concerning the biological risk, gynaecologists unexpected perceived this risk as less critical (w = 0.2820) than anaesthesiologists (w = 0.3354), which have the lowest perception of the risk of ionizing radiation (w = 0.1657). Conclusions: Prioritization methods could improve risk perception in healthcare settings and help detect training needs and perform sustainable training programs.

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“…In this way, the postulates were assigned a rank. In the first group of most important priorities (i.e., high number of credits [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]), four postulates were included. In the second group of moderate priorities (4-7 credits), there were seven postulates.…”

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Bridging the Gap between Theory, Practice, and Policy: A Decision-making Process Based on Public Health Evidence Feasible in Multistage Research on Biology Risk Factors in Poland

Kuczerowska¹,

Lahiri²,

Gajda³

2020

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Stakeholder input into the decision-making process when developing public health programs and policies is crucial. This article presents an innovative approach, involving online participation with a wide group of stakeholders located in different geographic locations, for policy consensus by research methodology. The results of the project have been used to propose assumptions regarding a strategy for preventing blood-borne diseases in Poland. The research was conducted iteratively using a multi-stage qualitative methodology to explore risk assessment involving blood-borne infections. The final output of the entire project is a list of key problems/challenges and solutions associated with medical and nonmedical services that are connected to the breakage of tissue continuity. Qualitative research is rare in risk assessment as priority is usually given to statistical data and end-points (quantitative studies ). Statistical data on health risk allows to assess the health implications, while the methodology applied also allowed diagnosis of the processes leading to these effects. In addition to policy preparation for blood-borne illnesses, the methodology employed in the study can also be used to successfully explore other areas of public health policy decisions.

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“…The perioperative environment is a high‐risk setting for percutaneous injury, exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and occupational transmission of disease because of the presence of large quantities of blood and other potentially infectious body fluids, prolonged exposure to open surgical sites, frequent handling of sharp items and instruments, and the requirement for coordination between team members when passing sharp surgical instruments . A meta‐analysis and meta‐regression of 45 studies on the incidence of sharps injuries in surgical units found that a surgeon will experience a sharps injury during approximately 1 in 10 operations …”

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Clinical Issues—January 2020

Ogg¹

2019

AORN Journal

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THIS MONTH Use of indicator glove systems Key words: perforation indicator system, double gloving, glove perforation, innermost glove. Sharps injury protocols Key words: sharps injury, occupational exposure, risk assessment, bloodborne viruses. Sharps injury reporting Key words: injury reporting, sharps injuries, bloodborne pathogen, hepatitis C virus (HCV). Sterile item storage Key words: sterile storage room, shelving unit, sterile supplies, sterile item, cabinet. Combining storage of sterile and unsterile supplies Key words: sterile supplies, unsterile supplies, sterile storage room, storage rack.

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Incidence of sharps injuries in surgical units, a meta-analysis and meta-regression

Cited by 15 publications

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Assessing Risks Awareness in Operating Rooms among Post-Graduate Students: A Pilot Study

Assessing Risks Awareness in Operating Rooms among Post-Graduate Students: A Pilot Study

Bridging the Gap between Theory, Practice, and Policy: A Decision-making Process Based on Public Health Evidence Feasible in Multistage Research on Biology Risk Factors in Poland

Clinical Issues—January 2020

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