Occupational Risk

U.S. Hospital Needle Pricks Top 1,000 Per Day

Published in Blood Weekly, March 23rd, 2000

U.S. health care workers suffer almost 400,000 needle-stick injuries every year that could expose them to bloodborne viruses, risking infection from diseases including hepatitis B and C and AIDS, researchers told a conference on infections in hospitals on March 7, 2000.

Based on data from 60 large U.S. hospitals, researchers concluded that about 384,000 needle-stick or similar injuries occur among health care workers in hospitals every year.

The study, conducted by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was presented to the International Conference on Nosocomial and Health-Care-Associated Infections meeting in...

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