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Epidemiology of needlestick injuries among health-care workers in Awassa City, Southern Ethiopia

Published:2010-03-19 Issue:2 Volume:40 Page:111-113
ISSN:0049-4755
Container-title:Tropical Doctor
language:en
Short-container-title:Trop Doct

Author:

Tadesse Moges¹,Tadesse Takele²

Affiliation:

1. School of Health Sciences, Dilla University, Dilla

2. School of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Abstract

Accidental needlestick injuries sustained by health-care workers are a common occupational hazard and a public health issue in health-care settings. An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted and 30.9% of health-care workers had experienced at least one needlestick injury in the previous year.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1258/td.2009.090191

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