Murofuse Neide Tiemi, Marziale Maria Helena Palucci, Gemelli Lorena Moraes Goetem
REPAT USP, Rede de Prevenção de Acidentes de Trabalhos com Material Biológico em Hospitais Brasileiros.
Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2005 Aug;26(2):168-79.
It is a descriptive and retrospective study with the purpose of investigating labor accidents with biological material involving workers and trainees occurred in 2003 and 2004 in a University Hospital of Parana. For data collection, the electronic form of the Net of Occupational Accidents Prevention - REPAT has been utilized. Out of the 586 hospital workers, there was a register of 20 (3,4%) injured workers in 2003 and 23 (3,8%) in 2004, representing an increase of 15% in the notifications from one year to the other.