Occupational Exposure and Voluntary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing: A Survey of Maryland Hospitals

A survey was conducted to estimate how often healthcare providers were exposed to patients’ blood and the percentage of incidents in which patients agreed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. Data from 38 hospitals with 53,508 employees revealed 2,244 exposures. Of 1,732 requests for infor...

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Published in:Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1999-06, Vol.20 (6), p.430-432
Main Authors: Solomon, Liza, Thompson, Charlotte, Squiers, Linda, Wulff, Karen, Benjamin, Georges
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AIDS
AIDS serodiagnosis
Biological and medical sciences
Blood
Concise Communications
Denial
Epidemiology
Health care industry
Health Personnel
Health Surveys
HIV
HIV Infections - diagnosis
HIV Infections - epidemiology
Hospital administration
Hospitals
Hospitals, General
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infection Control - methods
Infectious diseases
Informed Consent
Maryland - epidemiology
Medical sciences
Mental health
Occupational Diseases - diagnosis
Occupational Diseases - epidemiology
Occupational exposure
Occupational Exposure - statistics & numerical data
Teaching hospitals
USA, Maryland
Viral diseases
Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids
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Summary:A survey was conducted to estimate how often healthcare providers were exposed to patients’ blood and the percentage of incidents in which patients agreed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. Data from 38 hospitals with 53,508 employees revealed 2,244 exposures. Of 1,732 requests for information regarding the HIV status of the source patient, only 77 (6%) resulted in the patient’s refusal to consent to an HIV test.
ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
DOI:10.1086/501647