Investigation and Analysis of Sharp Injuries among Health Care Workers from 36 Hospitals in Shandong Province, China

Table 3

Locations of sharp injuries among HCWs in Shandong Province in October 2019.

Department	Number of sharp injuries		Proportion (%)
	October 2019	October 2012	October 2019	October 2012
General wards	245	2242	44.63	49.54	<0.05
Operating rooms	98	855	17.85	18.89	>0.05
ICU^a	37	236	6.74	5.21	>0.05
CSSD^b	26	80	4.74	1.77	<0.05
Outpatient dept	23	116	4.19	2.56	<0.05
Emergency dept	21	121	3.83	2.67	>0.05
Blood-drawing dept	15	31	2.73	0.68	<0.05
Medical waste repository	14	43	2.55	0.95	<0.05
Rehydration room	10	101	1.82	2.23	>0.05
Clinical laboratory	5	41	0.91	0.91	>0.05
PIVAS^c	4	38	0.73	0.84	>0.05
Dental dept	4	146	0.73	3.23	<0.05
Hemodialysis room	3	13	0.55	0.29	>0.05
Ophthalmology dept	3	34	0.55	0.75	>0.05
Other	41	429	7.47	9.48	>0.05
Total	549	4526	100.00	100.00

^aICU: intensive care units; ^bCSSD: central sterile supply department; ^cPIVAS: pharmacy intravenous admixture service. : statistically significant.