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1Stony Brook University, New York, USA. mary.hotaling@chsli.org
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
|February 27, 2009
Abstract:
A performance improvement project used an interdisciplinary, systematic approach, including frontline staff input, in identifying, selecting, and evaluating a safer needle device. Following adoption of a retractable needle, needlesticks of health care workers decreased from 3.19 to zero incidents per 100,000 needles.
