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Needlestick Injuries

Known as: Needle-Sticks, Needlestick, Needle-Stick Injuries 
Penetrating stab wounds caused by needles. They are of special concern to health care workers since such injuries put them at risk for developing… 
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Two drugs or three? Balancing efficacy, toxicity, and resistance in postexposure prophylaxis for occupational exposure to HIV.
Thousands of health care workers are potentially exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each year via occupationally… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Importance of posterolateral needle biopsies in the detection of prostate cancer.
Review
2000
Review
2000
Telecytologic Diagnosis of Breast Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies
OBJECTIVE To determine the intraobserver concordance between telecytologic and glass slide diagnosis of breast fine needle… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Satellite exchange in the Baltimore Needle Exchange Program.
OBJECTIVE Our first objective was to develop an index of satellite exchange and then determine whether satellite exchangers (SEs… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Stressful Nurses: The Effect on Patient Outcomes
The article describes a study that measured, over a 3-month period, staffing problems, including turnover rates; nurse incidents… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Packing and re-exploration for patients with nonhepatic injuries.
We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of 11 patients admitted to the trauma service at Kings County Hospital who… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Needlestick injuries at operations for trauma. Are surgical gloves an effective barrier?
Surgeons are at risk from both hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency viruses. While vaccines have been developed against the… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
Risk to surgeons: A survey of accidental injuries during operations
A survey was conducted with the participation of eight consultant general surgeons, two consultant urologists, four consultant… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
The collapsed inferior vena cava: CT evidence of hypovolemia.
In a review of 100 patients undergoing abdominal CT for blunt abdominal trauma, seven had flattening of the infrahepatic inferior… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Grading errors in prostatic needle biopsies: relation to the accuracy of tumor grade in predicting pelvic lymph node metastases.
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