Abstract
Affiliation: 1. International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia. Received October 17, 2012; accepted January 22, 2013; electronically published April 18, 2013. 2013 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2013/3406-0011$15.00. DOI: 10.1086/670638 Over the past 2 decades in the United States, a dramatic transformation of policies, procedures, and technologies for protecting healthcare workers from the risk of occupational bloodborne pathogen transmission has occurred. In the United States, we have an abundance of safety device choices and a regulatory framework to support continued improvement in reducing this occupational risk. Whether we achieve this objective depends directly on informed product choices as healthcare employers make their purchasing decisions.
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