Health Care Workers and Standard Precautions: Perceptions and Determinants of Compliance in the Emergency and Trauma Triage of a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Table 2

Hazardous needle practices among the participants ().

Unsafe practices	Doctors; (); (%)	Nurses; (); (%)	Total; (); (%)
Recapping needles after use	79 (72.4)	17 (32.1)	96 (59.3)
Bending or breaking needles by hand after use	14 (12.8)	8 (15.1)	22 (13.6)
Manual removal of needles from syringes	26 (23.9)	23 (43.4)	49 (30.2)
Improper disposal of the used needles	25 (22.9)	4 (7.5)	29 (17.9)