Epidemiological characteristics of occupational exposures in a stomatological hospital from 2020 to 2024
10.11816/cn.ni.2025-258111
- VernacularTitle:2020-2024年某口腔专科医院职业暴露流行病学特征
- Author:
Fanglong LI
1
;
Ting WANG
;
Linlin CHENG
;
Wendi XU
;
Aijuan ZHANG
;
Hongyan ZHANG
Author Information
1. 青岛大学附属青岛市口腔医院院感科,山东青岛 266001;青岛大学附属青岛市口腔医院口腔颌面外科,山东青岛 266001
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Occupational exposure;
Sharp injury;
Stomatological hospital;
Prevention measure;
Epidemiology
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
2025;35(22):3490-3494
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status and characteristics of occupational exposure in a stomato-logical hospital and explore the influencing factors for occupational exposure among dentists so as to propose pre-ventive and control measures for occupational exposure in the stomatological hospital.METHODS A retrospective study was carried out to analyze 180 incidents of occupational exposures in Qingdao Stomatological Hospital Affili-ated to Qingdao University from 2020 to 2024,involving the departments,names,genders,age,average annual workload,average annual outpatient days,exposure links,instruments leading to exposures,exposure sources,occupational type and professional titles.The incidence of occupational exposure was compared among the subjects with different occupations,professional titles and department affiliations.Logistic regression analysis was per-formed for the influencing factors for the occupational exposures among the dentists.RESULTS The incidence of occupational exposures was 7.52％(180/2395)within the 5 years,and the sharp instrument injury(99.40％)was the predominant exposure approach.The department of oral and maxillofacial surgery,department of restorative dentisty and department of prosthodontics were the departments at high risk of occupational exposures.There was significant difference in the incidence of occupational exposures among the staff and the doctors with different pro-fessional titles(P＜0.05).The subjects for whom the exposure source was positive or failed to be tracked accoun-ted for 56.11％.The professional title(OR=0.328)was a protective factor for the occupational exposure among the doctors,and the high-risk department(OR=4.912)was a risk factor for the occupational exposure(P＜0.05).CONCLUSIONS The occupational exposures to the stomatology department staff are characterized by high prevalence,monotonous type,concentrated distribution of populations and uncontrollable occupational exposures.It is necessary to complete the preoperative screening of infectious diseases,strengthen the awareness of prevention,standardize the technical procedures and boost the innovation of auxiliary instruments so as to re-duce the incidence of occupational exposures.
