Study: 36.5% of ED Residents Don’t Report Needlestick Injuries

More than a third of emergency medicine residents who had a needlestick injury did not report it to the employee health department, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

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By: Staff

From January to February 2011, 208 Illinois emergency medicine residents responded to a survey on percutaneous injuries.

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