The Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury An Epidemiology

Traditionally, health care worker injury exposure data is analyzed one category at a time, which tends to isolate the researcher from a more global perspective of an industry-wide analysis. The Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology provides an industry-wide analysis that facilitates a wide-angle view of the dangers of working in health care, by focusing on the major categories of health care worker injury:needlesticks, the most prevalent riskback injury, the most expensive riskviolence and assault-health care workers account for more than half of all assaulted service workers infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis Clatex allergy, which now affects almost 10% of health-care workersmanaged care and its profound effect on the injury rates through downsizing, deskilling, and increased acuityinjuries to different populations of health care workershome health care injury rateslong-term care injuries, which have doubled in the last decade