Incidence of needlestick injury in Chinese nursing interns: a Meta-analysis

VernacularTitle:国内护理实习生针刺伤发生率的荟萃分析
Author: Haiqiu SUN ; Junli YOU ; Gangmei CHEN ; Xianchai HONG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Needlestick injury; Incidence rate; Nursing interns; Meta-analysis
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2014;30(10):37-40
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To systematically assess the incidence of needlestick injury in Chinese nursing interns.Methods Research articles published on China Academic Journal Electronic Retrieval Database (CNKI),Chinese Scientific Journals Full-text Database (VIP),Wanfang DATA,ISI Web of Knowledge,PUBMED,OVID,Springer and other databases before 2013 were searched,which were relevant to needlestick injury in Chinese nursing interns.Using STATA 12.0 software,pooled estimates were summarized by Meta-analysis.Results 61 articles were included in this study,which covered a total of 15 451 nursing interns.Meta-analysis showed that the pooled incidence of needlestick injury in nursing interns was 65％,95％CI=60％～71％.Although the incidence declined year by year in recent decade,it was still higher than 55％.However,the injury reporting rate was 22％,95％ CI=16％～29％.Conclusions Needlestick injury showed a high incidence in Chinese nursing interns,but declined slightly year by year.However,the injury reporting rate was still very low.