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

Table 5

Operations that caused sharp injuries among HCWs in Shandong Province in October 2019.

Operation	Number of sharp injuries		Proportion (%)
	October 2019	October 2012	October 2019	October 2012
Recapping injector needle with two hands	90	467	16.39	10.32	<0.05
Drug administration	82	508	14.94	11.22	<0.05
Drawing blood	51	173	9.29	3.82	<0.05
Surgical suture	49	397	8.93	8.77	>0.05
Withdrawing needles	36	371	6.56	8.20	>0.05
Tidying up surgical instruments	35	155	6.38	3.42	<0.05
Putting needles into the sharp box	29	317	5.28	7.00	>0.05
Preparation for infusion	27	278	4.92	6.14	>0.05
Intravenous injection	25	229	4.55	5.06	>0.05
Handling trash	24	346	4.37	7.64	<0.05
Needle or instrument delivery	19	113	3.46	2.50	>0.05
Contusion during rescue	14	124	2.55	2.74	>0.05
Intramuscular injection	13	113	2.37	2.50	>0.05
Draw arterial blood	9	72	1.64	1.59	>0.05
Surgical knife cuts	6	122	1.09	2.70	<0.05
Other	40	741	7.29	16.37	<0.05
Total	549	4526	100.00	100.00

P <0.05: statistically significant.