Nonhospital health-care workers at substantial risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens

Nonhospital health-care workers at substantial risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens
posted by net1978 213 days 23 hours 7 minutes ago

In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health assessed the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens among non-hospital based registered nurses (RNs), and found that nearly one out of 10 of the more than 1100 nurse participants reported at least one needlestick injury in the previous 12 months.

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