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 (December 14, 2023)
• 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 (December 3, 2022)
• Retrospective investigation of 9 years of data on needlestick and sharps injuries: Effect of a hospital infection control committee. (February 2019)
• Incidence of sharps injuries in surgical units, a meta-analysis and meta-regression. (April 2019)
• Clinical, economic, and humanistic burden of needlestick injuries in healthcare workers. (2017)
• Canadian Association of General Surgeons position statement: recommendations for surgeons with blood-borne communicable diseases (April 2016)

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)

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. (May 30, 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 2020)
• Comparing non-safety with safety device sharps injury incidence data from two different occupational surveillance systems. (June, 2017)