Table 4

Characteristics of sharp injuries

Doctors (%)Nurses (%)Laboratory technicians (%)Sanitation workers (%)Students (%)Other (%)Total, % (n)
Workplace
 Room for drawing of outpatient blood samples0.10.713.440.52.40.61.0 (179)
 Stomatology department6.31.619.41.92.46.43.3 (606)
 Injection room for outpatient0.27.70.05.85.10.65.3 (978)
 Outpatient clinic4.01.93.05.32.06.12.7 (493)
 Emergency department3.23.00.74.14.52.63.1(577)
 Intensive care unit1.86.60.04.42.21.34.8 (875)
 Units for haemodialysis0.10.80.00.80.30.30.6 (106)
 General ward13.458.32.131.361.816.744.5 (8157)
 Clinical laboratory0.40.235.13.80.27.11.4 (253)
 Operating room65.38.70.94.911.910.922.2 (4076)
 Sterile processing centre0.22.20.05.80.413.81.9(346)
 Room for temporarily depositing medical waste0.21.70.522.91.22.92.3(427)
 Other4.76.524.98.55.630.86.9 (1271)
Circumstance of sharp injuries
 Recapping9.411.48.12.216.34.210.7 (1962)
 Hollow bore6.930.327.02.931.19.023.0 (4215)
 Preparing and discarding20.844.313.485.536.531.739.1 (7166)
 scalpel and sharps48.46.05.10.68.15.816.1 (2945)
 Others14.58.046.48.97.949.411.2 (2056)
Sharp device
 Hollow bore34.881.438.869.281.840.468.0 (12 466)
 scalpel and sharps54.713.038.621.513.526.024.3 (4458)
 Others10.55.522.69.34.733.77.7 (1420)