AORN's multisite clinical study of bloodborne exposures in OR personnel.
Perioperative nurses are participating in a multisite clinical study to identify risk factors for blood and body fluid exposures in OR settings and to create a surveillance database that can be used to assess the benefits of strategies to prevent these exposures. The project is funded by a grant from Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, to the AORN Foundation and is coordinated by an AORN Headquarters nurse in collaboration with the primary investigator at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville. This article reports the study's implementation and current status.
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AORN Center for Nursing Practice, Research, and Health Policy, Denver, CO, USA.
D017848:Blood-Borne Pathogens; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D009873:Operating Rooms; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012307:Risk Factors; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014481:United States