AIMS To review the literature on sharps injuries and occupational bloodborne virus transmission in health care in the UK and the worldwide evidence for injury prevention of sharps safety devices. METHODS Literature review by online database and Internet resource search. RESULTS Twenty-four relevant publications were identified regarding UK reported sharps injury rates. UK studies showed as ...

background about one third of unwanted reported medication consequences are due to medication errors, resulting in one-fifth of hospital injuries. objectives the aim of this study was determined formal and informal medication errors of nurses and the level of importance of factors in refusal to report medication errors among nurses. patients and methods the cross-sectional study was done on the...

CONTEXT Laws requiring mandatory reporting of domestic violence to police exist in 4 states. Controversy exists about the risks and benefits of such laws. OBJECTIVE To examine attitudes of female emergency department patients toward mandatory reporting of domestic violence injuries to police and how these attitudes may differ by abuse status. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectiona...

This paper presents the project iReport SportsInjuries, which is a system with a focus on a Web application directed to sport health professionals, supporting the acquisition, analysis and dissemination of sports injuries information. This software will allow health professionals register and analyze sports injuries among sports populations. The application provides a reporting module that incl...

OBJECTIVES To examine and discuss the implications on the incidence of hospitalised injuries of selecting cases from principal diagnosis field only compared with considering all diagnosis fields, the inclusion compared with the exclusion of medical injuries, and the impact of identifying multiple admissions. METHODS Analysis of data from the 1999-2000 New South Wales Inpatient Statistics Coll...

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND In spinal cord injury (SCI) medicine, informing a patient with a neurologically complete SCI of the poor prognosis ("bad news") for significant neurological recovery (e.g. ambulation) is difficult. Few guidelines exist for clinicians and the wishes of patients in receiving this information are currently not known. The goal of this pilot study was to determine when, by whom,...

BACKGROUND The dental professional may see pediatric patients who have signs of intraoral trauma, perioral trauma or both. Evaluation should include the possibility of nonaccidental, deliberately inflicted abuse. Reporting such injuries is mandated. METHODS The authors reviewed the criminal and civil statutes in all 50 states to determine what role dental professionals are required to play in...