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Just-in-time training: a Web-based tool for needlestick injury
1Client Services, Department of Pathology, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, USA.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety
|April 18, 2003
Abstract:
It's 11:30 PM on a Saturday night, and you just stuck yourself with a contaminated needle. Suddenly, you have a problem. You remember that you have to act fast and you need a form, and the source has to be tested, but the details are somehow lacking. Now what do you do and where do you go? Where are those forms that you need? And didn't that procedure change last year? Now imagine being able to get all your questions answered and finding your forms with a few clicks of a mouse....
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