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1. Clinical Presentation and Outcomes of Kawasaki Disease in Children From Latin America: A Multicenter Observational Study from the REKAMLATINA Network

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Hari K. Narayan, Anel Lizcano, Tracy Lam-Hine, Rolando Ulloa-Gutierrez, Emelia V. Bainto, Luis M. Garrido-García, Dora Estripeaut, Olguita del Aguila, Virgen Gómez, Enrique Faugier-Fuentes, Greta Miño-León, Sandra Beltrán, Fernanda Cofré, Enrique Chacon-Cruz, Patricia Saltigeral-Simental, Lucila Martínez-Medina, Lourdes Dueñas, Kathia Luciani, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Quiroz, Germán Camacho Moreno, Tamara Viviani, Martha I. Alvarez-Olmos, Heloisa Helena de Sousa Marques, Eduardo López-Medina, María C. Pirez, Adriana H. Tremoulet, Luisa B. Gámez-González, Jaime Patiño, Daniela Cleves, Lorena Franco, Maria L. Avila-Agüero, Kattia Camacho-Badilla, Alejandra Soriano-Fallas, Susan Li-Chan, Kathia Valverde, Alejandro Ellis, Carlos F. Grazioso, Pablo J. Grazioso, Gonzalo Calvimontes, Giannina Izquierdo, Pilar Picart, Andrea Salgado, Arturo Borzutzky, Antonio Arbo, Dolores Lovera, Sara Amarilla, Fernando Galeano, Norma Astigarraga, Maria del Carmen Luis-Álvarez, Estefanía Fynn, Elizabeth Assandri, Jacqueline Levy, Elizabeth Castaño, Raúl Esquivel, Ximena Norero, Scarlet Sinisterra, Carlos Daza, Javier Record, Isabel C. Hurtado-Palacios, Antonio Madrid, Angélica Calvache-Burbano, Antonio Fernández, Yasmín Sánchez, Dolores Freire, Marco A. Yamazaki-Nakashimada, Raymundo Rodríguez-Herrera, Diana López-Gallegos, Horacio Márquez-González, Kelly Marquez-Herrera, Neusa Keico Sakita, María Fernanda Badue Pereira, Gabriela Nunes Leal, Pilar Guarnizo, Manuel Huertas-Quiñones, Pio López, Jaime Deseda-Tous, Mónica Pujadas, Guillermo Soza, Carolina Cerda, Issa Lorena López-Medina, Rafael Hernández-Magaña, Saulo Duarte Passos, Nadina Rubio-Pérez, Fernando García-Rodríguez, Rogelio Martínez-Ramírez, Lorena Rodríguez-Muñoz, Karina Flores-Hernández, Alejandro Díaz-Díaz, Juan G. Mesa-Monsalve, María Mercedes Somarriba, and Jesús de Lara-Huerta

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Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Published
2023
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2. Epidemiology of needlesticks and other sharps injuries and injection safety practices in the Dominican Republic

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Arelis Moore, Alex Montero, Virgen Gómez, Zacarías Garib, Pedro L. Moro, Bruce G. Weniger, Patricia Balcacer, and Delissa Diaz

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medicine.medical_specialty, Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional, Epidemiology, Cross-sectional study, Health Personnel, Psychological intervention, Ambulatory Care Facilities, Occupational Exposure, Health care, medicine, Humans, Hepatitis B Vaccines, Needlestick Injuries, Bloodborne pathogens, Infection Control, Hospitals, Public, business.industry, Health Policy, Incidence (epidemiology), Dominican Republic, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, medicine.disease, Surgery, Cross-Sectional Studies, Infectious Diseases, Health Care Surveys, Family medicine, Clinical Competence, business
Abstract

Contaminated sharps, such as needles, lancets, scalpels, broken glass, specimen tubes, and other instruments, can transmit bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C viruses (HCV).Observation of facilities and injections and questionnaire-guided interviews were conducted in 2005 among health care workers (HCWs) in 2 public hospitals in Santo Domingo and 136 public immunization clinics (IC) in the Dominican Republic. Injection practices and sharps injuries (SIs) in health care facilities in the Dominican Republic were assessed in cross-sectional surveys to identify areas in which preventive efforts might be directed to make injection practices safer.Of the 304 hospital HCWs and 136 ICs HCWs interviewed, 98 (22.3%) reportedor =1 SIs during the previous 12 months. ICs had a lower incidence (13 per 100 per person-years [p-y]) of SIs than hospitals (65 per 100 p-y) (P.0001). Unsafe needle recapping was observed in 98% of all injections observed at hospitals but in only 12% of injections at ICs (P.0001). Sharps were observed improperly disposed in regular waste containers in 24 (92%) of 26 areas at which injections are prepared at the hospitals but in only 11 (8%) of 136 ICs (P.0001). Training in injection safety was received by 4% of HCWs in hospitals but by 77% in ICs (P.001). Of 425 HCWs, 247 (58%) were fully immunized against hepatitis B. There was a higher risk of SIs among staff dentists (adjusted relative risks [aRR], 5.9; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.8-12.6), resident physicians (aRR, 3.5; 95% CI: 1.8-6.9), and those who gaveor =11 therapeutic injections per day (aRR, 1.6; 95% CI: 1.1-2.4).Injection practices at ICs were safer than those found at public hospitals. Preventive strategies to lower SIs in public hospitals should include regular training of hospital staff to minimize needle recapping and improper disposal, among other interventions to reduce the dangers of needles.

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2007
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