The Epidemiology of Blood-Contaminated Needlestick Injuries Among Veterinarians in Portugal

Needlestick injuries (NIs) are considered a substantial occupational health and safety hazard in contemporary health care practice. Unlike human medicine where much effort has been devoted to reduce the incidence of these events, the same aggressive approach has not been used in veterinary medicine....

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Main Author: Mesquita, João R. (author)
Other Authors: Sousa, Sofia I. V. (author), Vala, Helena (author), Nascimento, Maria S. J. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/2785
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipv.pt:10400.19/2785