RT Journal
A1 Kuehn BM
T1 UNsafe injection practices plague us outpatient facilities, harm patients
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD December 26
VO 308
IS 24
SP 2551
OP 2552
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.114239
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.114239
AB 
When an astute staff member at a county public health department in New York noticed that 2 patients who had been newly diagnosed with hepatitis C virus (HCV) had recently received epidural injections from the same pain management clinic, it sparked a visit by state public health officials to the clinic. During the visit, they observed the physician who treated both patients withdrawing medication from a multiple-dose vial with a previously used syringe topped with a new needle, a breach of safe injection practices that may have contaminated the vial and exposed subsequent patients to potential blood-borne infections.