Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

• Needle Stick Injury: A Decade Retrospection Among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Center
• Healthcare-associated hepatitis B and C transmission to patients in the EU/EEA and UK: a systematic review of reported outbreaks between 2006 and 2021
• Canadian Association of General Surgeons position statement: recommendations for surgeons with blood-borne communicable diseases
• Retrospective investigation of 9 years of data on needlestick and sharps injuries: Effect of a hospital infection control committee. (February 1, 2019)
• Incidence of sharps injuries in surgical units, a meta-analysis and meta-regression. (Apr 1, 2019)
• Clinical, economic, and humanistic burden of needlestick injuries in healthcare workers. (2017)
• Factors associated with needlestick and sharps injuries among hospital nurses: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey. (2013)

Sharps Injury Management

• Management of health care workers following occupational exposure to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus. (October, 2016)
• Prevention of needle-stick injuries in healthcare facilities: a meta-analysis. (July, 2015)
• The Management of Needlestick Injuries. (2013)

Blood Safety Measures by Diseases

• Hepatitis E and blood donation safety in selected European countries: a shift to screening?. (April 20, 2017)
• Targeting of blood safety measures to affected areas with ongoing local transmission of malaria. (June, 2016)

Sharps Injury Prevention Devices

• Impact of needle-free connectors compared with 3-way stopcocks on catheter-related bloodstream infection rates: A meta-analysis. (March 1, 2020)
• Comparing non-safety with safety device sharps injury incidence data from two different occupational surveillance systems. (June, 2017)
• Blunt versus sharp suture needles for preventing percutaneous exposure incidents in surgical staff. (November 9, 2011)
• Conventional and sharp safety devices in 6 hospitals in British Columbia, Canada. (November, 2011)
• Sharps injury reduction using a sharps container with enhanced engineering: A 28 hospital nonrandomized intervention and cohort study. (December, 2010)