Occupational Risk
"Development and Piloting of a National Surveillance System for Occupational Exposures and Infections Among Health Care Workers (HCWs)."
Published in Blood Weekly, June 24th, 1996
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 6th Annual Meeting of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, held April 21-23, 1996, in Washington, DC, "Background: Data to monitor the scope, magnitude, and national trends of occupational exposures to infectious agents experienced by HCWs are not available. Objective: To develop a national surveillance system for occupational exposures and infections among hospital-based HCWs. Methods: Surveillance modules were developed, modeled after the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS), to collect information on exposures to bloodborne fluids (BBF) and bloodborne pathogens (BP);...
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Source: Blood Weekly (1996-06-24)
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