"A Critical Review of the Literature on Sharps Injuries: Epidemiology, Management of Exposures and Prevention."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, "This article reviews the literature related to the epidemiology, prevention and management of sharps injuries in health care workers, particularly nurses, and the subsequent risk of harm. The studies are reviewed chronologically, beginning with the efforts to reduce sharps injuries by changing behaviours, followed by the introduction of barriers to protect the caregiver, and finally, the engineering of safer products. Initial efforts to prevent sharps injuries focused on placing rigid, disposal containers at the site where sharps were used and instructing health care workers to refrain from the...

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