Underreporting of Occupational Blood Exposure (OBE) Among Medical Staff at an University Hospital Center (UHC) in 2017 (OBE PRACTITIONERS UHC 2017)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Professional

Treatments: Other: Survey diffusion

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03424434

69HCL17_0883

Details and patient eligibility

About

Regarding 30 to 50% of occupational blood exposure (OBE) are underreporting among health professionals, it's to highlight that the part of medical professionals in OBE reporting is among the lowest (1996 to 2016). The current study is aiming to evaluate the underreporting of this specific occupational accident among medical staff for the year 2017. The investigators are supposing this is declining and the part of OBE reporting is better than before. So the current situation concerning OBE underreporting for medical staff in an University Hospital Center (UHC), 20 years after the first study, is our main purpose.

Enrollment: 1,493 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any medical or surgical health professional
• practitioner and resident
• working in an UHC
• without distinction of medical or surgical specialty
• having a professional mailbox

Exclusion criteria

• All paramedical health professionals (example: nurses) and pharmacists
• Any medical or surgical health professional working full-time outside an UHC
• Any medical or surgical health professional with exclusive liberal activity outside an UHC
• Administrative and technical staff of an UHC

Trial design

1,493 participants in 1 patient group

Medical staff of an UHC, practitioners and residents

Description:

The target population is practitioners and residents who works at hospital in an UHC, they are also specialists, surgeons, dental surgeons.

Treatment:

Other: Survey diffusion