Callan Richard S, Caughman Frank, Budd Michael L
Medical College of Georgia, School of Dentistry, 1120 15 Street, AD 3255, Augusta, GA 30912-1260, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2006 Oct;70(10):1089-97.
As teaching institutions, it is vital for dental schools to collect data on accidental injuries to identify potential problems, improve the quality of care of patients, and educate future practitioners about risk management. Our data reveal important trends concerning such injuries. These data were compiled over a two-year period (2001-03) from accident reports at one dental school. We categorized the accidents as follows: source (instrument causing the injury), recipient of injury, time of day, location within the dental school where the injury occurred, and body part injured. The population examined in this study consisted of predoctoral and postdoctoral dental students, staff, faculty, and patients of the dental school. The majority of injuries occurred in the predoctoral clinic toward the middle to the end of the scheduled clinic periods. The instrument most likely involved was a needle, and the body part most commonly injured was a finger. The collection and analysis of injury data may be used to identify trends that will aid in the prediction and prevention of these injuries and, at a national level, serve as a benchmark that other dental schools can employ to assess their relative frequency of injury.
作为教学机构，牙科学院收集意外伤害数据以识别潜在问题、提高患者护理质量并向未来从业者传授风险管理知识至关重要。我们的数据揭示了有关此类伤害的重要趋势。这些数据是在两年期间（2001 - 2003年）从一所牙科学院的事故报告中汇编而来的。我们将事故分类如下：来源（造成伤害的器械）、受伤者、一天中的时间、牙科学院内受伤发生的地点以及受伤的身体部位。本研究中所调查的人群包括牙科学院的博士前和博士后牙科学生、工作人员、教员以及患者。大多数伤害发生在博士前诊所预定诊期的中期至末期。最有可能涉及的器械是针头，最常受伤的身体部位是手指。伤害数据的收集和分析可用于识别有助于预测和预防这些伤害的趋势，并且在国家层面上，可作为其他牙科学院用以评估其相对伤害频率的基准。
