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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ind Med. 2014 Oct 10;58(3):282–289. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22392

Table III.

Bivariate Logistic Estimates of Odds that Sharps Injuries that Respondents said they Reported Appear in OHS Data (n=62)*

Odds
Ratio
95% Confidence
Interval
Gender Male (vs. female)** - -
Race/Ethnicity White non-Hispanic (vs. Other) 11.2 1.28 – 98.7
Age Category
  30–39 (vs. < 30) 0.94 0.27 – 4.04
  40–49 (vs. < 30) 1.05 0.27 – 4.03
  50+ (vs. < 30) 3.00 0.65 – 13.8
Tenure >5 years (vs. 0–5 years) 0.97 0.93 – 1.01
Occupation
  Staff Nurse (vs. Other) 1.40 0.38 – 5.23
  Patient-care Associate (vs. Other) 0.28 0.02 – 3.36
Safety Practices Scale 1.15 0.54 – 2.42
Coworker Support 2.18 0.92 – 5.17
Perceived Adequate Staffing 1.73 0.80 – 3.74
*

Number of subjects with missing data: 2 for safety practices, 5 for staffing adequacy, none for other variables.

**

Male respondents had no reported injuries in the OHS data.