Department of Emergency Medicine, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
J Formos Med Assoc. 2012 Feb;111(2):113-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2011.05.005. Epub 2012 Feb 3.
Korea is an endemic area of hepatitis. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections caused by occupational percutaneous injuries are a serious problem for healthcare workers and there has been a gradual increase in the number of HCV infections. We therefore determined the transmission rate of HCV after occupational percutaneous injury. This was a retrospective cohort study reviewing all occupational blood exposure reports made between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2008, at a university-affiliated acute care hospital. Over the 5-year study period, there were 1,516 accidents of occupational exposure to blood; of these, 327 (21.6%) were to the blood of HCV-infected patients and 3 (0.9%) healthcare workers became infected with HCV (95% CI 0.6-8.8). In Korea, although the bloodborne accidents leading to exposure to HCV occurred frequently (21.6%), the transmission rate was very low (0.92%).
韩国是肝炎的地方性流行区。医护人员因职业性经皮损伤而感染丙型肝炎病毒（HCV）是一个严重的问题，且 HCV 感染人数呈逐渐上升趋势。因此，我们确定了职业性经皮损伤后的 HCV 传播率。这是一项回顾性队列研究，对 2004 年 1 月 1 日至 2008 年 12 月 31 日在一所大学附属医院发生的所有职业性血液暴露报告进行了回顾。在 5 年的研究期间，有 1516 例职业性血液暴露事故；其中 327 例（21.6%）是接触 HCV 感染患者的血液，3 名（0.9%）医护人员感染了 HCV（95%CI 0.6-8.8）。在韩国，虽然导致 HCV 暴露的血源性事故频繁发生（21.6%），但传播率非常低（0.92%）。
