title: [Incidence of occupational accident in Sicilian University Hospital].
abstract: The evolution of the disease accident has been analysed in a University Hospital in Sicily (approx. 2500 employees/year) for the time period between 2002 and 2006. The industrial injuries index has shown a swing in course (from a value of 3.80% in 2002 to 5.17% in 2003 to 4.49% in 2004), affecting the categories of nurses and health social workers most. The phenomenon shows a constant course within the same period for medical staff, technical assistants and administrative staff. Biological risk industrial injuries have the highest frequency compared to all others (62.5% in 2002 down to 42.3% in 2006). The most interesting datum is the relative scarce entity of the phenomenon when compared to other similar hospital situations and the progressive reduction of biological risk incidents.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra Igiene Industriale Università di Palermo. lapaglia@unipa.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: La Paglia
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Biondo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bastianini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cascio
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Imburgia
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006282:Health Personnel; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy