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Sharps injury reduction using Sharpsmart--a reusable sharps management system.

Sharps containers are associated with 11-13% of total sharps injuries (SI) yet have received little attention as a means of SI reduction. A newly developed reusable sharps containment system (Sharpsmart) was trialed in eight hospitals in three countries. The system was associated with an 86.8% reduction of container-related SI (CRSI) (P=0.012), a 25.7% reduction in non-CRSI (P=0.003), and a 32....

Cause reduction: delta debugging, even without bugs

What is a test case for? Sometimes, to expose a fault. Tests can also exercise code, use memory or time, or produce desired output. Given a desired effect a test case can be seen as a cause, and its components divided into essential (required for effect) and accidental. Delta debugging is used for removing accidents from failing test cases, producing smaller test cases that are easier to unders...

Acute delta hepatitis without circulating HBsAg.

Infection with the delta agent can only occur in the context of coexistent hepatitis B virus infection. We describe a patient in whom the clinical features of acute delta hepatitis developed when seroconversion from hepatitis B surface antigen to antibody had already occurred and diagnosis of recent acute hepatitis B was based on high titre IgM antibody to hepatitis B core antigen. We discuss t...

Managing Sharps Waste in Andhra Pradesh: Introduction and scale-up of a sharps waste management program

OSHA cracks down on sharps-safety violators.

www.nursingcenter.com THE OCCUPATIONAL Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is cracking down on facilities that don’t comply with sharps-safety regulations. Two citations issued in 2003 show that health care facilities must fully comply with OSHA’s requirement to use safety-engineered sharp devices or pay a price. In 2001, OSHA revised the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, strengthening its req...