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Nancy J Williams1, Tista S Ghosh, Richard L Vogt
1Tri-County Health Department, Greenwood Village, CO, USA. williams@snhdmail.org
Abstract:
Tri-County Health Department studied needlestick injury (NSI) risks in pandemic influenza A (H1N1) mass vaccination clinics through incident reports and an Internet-based vaccinator survey. The mass vaccination clinic NSI rate was 4.9 times the mean rate observed during Tri-County Health Department's 2003 to 2009 routine vaccination clinics. There was also a trend of increased risk for NSI with vaccination inexperience. These findings can be used to improve future mass vaccination clinic safety.
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