Risk factors for defaulted follow up for sharp injury among health care workers in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
Loading...
Date
2021-06
Authors
Kutubudin, Ahmed Farrasyah Mohd
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
injury happened in the ward. Departments involving surgical procedure recorded the highest amount of injury. Job category pictured that most of the sharp injury cases were among house officers. Majority of the injuries were caused by needles and branula and mostly these devices were contaminated with blood and bodily fluids. From this study, we also noted that sharp injury mostly occurred when HCWs were handling the patients. All the reported cases must undergo treatment and follow up post exposure. However, from this study we found that there were two factors associated with defaulted follow up which were job category and type of devices used. HCWs who work as a doctor (Adj OR 2.37;95% CI: 1.40,4.03; p = 0.010) and those who used other sharp instruments such as Coupland, drip sets, and many others (Adj OR 4.55;95% CI: 1.59,13.02; p = 0.005) were at higher odds to default the follow up .
Conclusion: Sharp injury is an issue that remained unresolved throughout the world generally and in Malaysia specifically. The risk to get the injury can occur to HCWs especially among those working as doctors and those involve with surgical procedure. Despite that, they are also more prone to default the treatment and follow up post sharp injury. A more intensive approach must be taken to handle and tackle this problem.
Description
Keywords
Accidents