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Underreporting of Occupational Blood Exposure (OBE) Among Medical Staff at an University Hospital Center (UHC) in 2017 (OBE PRACTITIONERS UHC 2017)

NCT03424434 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1493

Last updated 2018-05-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Regarding 30 to 50% of occupational blood exposure (OBE) are underreporting among health professionals, it's to highlight that the part of medical professionals in OBE reporting is among the lowest (1996 to 2016). The current study is aiming to evaluate the underreporting of this specific occupational accident among medical staff for the year 2017. The investigators are supposing this is declining and the part of OBE reporting is better than before. So the current situation concerning OBE underreporting for medical staff in an University Hospital Center (UHC), 20 years after the first study, is our main purpose.

Conditions

  • Health Professional

Interventions

OTHER

Survey diffusion

The study consists in a survey diffusion during several weeks by emailing each practitioner and resident and inviting them to participate to a questionnaire about occupational blood exposure. This survey is strictly anonymous. No identity data is required, only age, gender, function, surgical or medical specialty, work quota and hospital group they belong. This survey is diffused in four UHC (Lyon, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne) in France.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-13
Primary Completion
2018-05-19
Completion
2018-05-19

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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