Abstract
Injuries caused by sharp medical devices are common among health care workers in the United States. The best available data suggest that between 400,000 and 800,000 such injuries occur in hospitals each year (1–3). These injuries are a source of concern because of their potential to transmit various infectious agents, including hepatitis B virus (4), hepatitis C virus (5), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (6,7). The evaluation and treatment of these injuries and subsequent illnesses impose a heavy societal burden in terms of economic cost (8), worker anxiety and distress (9,10), and future morbidity (1,3–5,11–13).
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