TY  - JOUR
T1  - UNsafe injection practices plague us outpatient facilities, harm patients
AU  - Kuehn BM
Y1  - 2012/12/26
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.114239
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2551
EP  - 2552
VL  - 308
IS  - 24
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.114239
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.114239
ER  -