Table 1.
Representative NSI rates by country
| Country | Rate of NSI | Site | Time frame |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia57 | 2.86 percutaneous exposures per 100 FTE staff | 20 Queensland public hospitals | 2004–2011 |
| Brazil58 | 386 exposures to biological material recorded among 1,736 nursing staff | Teaching hospital in São Paulo | 2003–2009 |
| China59 | 64.9% of nurses experienced NSI within past year | Teaching hospital in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province | April 2012 |
| Egypt16 | 69.4% of HCWs reported at least one NSI in their lifetime and 35.6% reported an injury during the previous 3 months; mean number of injuries during past 3 months was 1.23, equating to the rate of 4.9 NSI per HCW annually | Ninety-eight healthcare facilities in one governorate in the Nile Delta and one governorate in Upper Egypt | Three months prior to date of interview (interview date unknown) |
| France60 | 6.3 blood and body fluid exposures per 100 beds with most frequent being NSIs | National surveillance of French hospitals | 2012 |
| Italy61 | 53% of nurses and nursing students reported having had at least one injury during their career | University hospital of Ferrara | 2002–2012 |
| Netherlands62 | 0.5 NSI/day 1,053 total/8 years | Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam (unknown number of beds or HCWs) | 2003–2010 |
| Saudi Arabia17 | 3.2 NSIs per 100 occupied hospital beds | Fifty-two Ministry of Health Hospitals via EPINet | January 2012–December 2012 |
| South Africa15 | 14.9% of HCWs reported having a NSI or blood and body fluid exposure in past 6 months | Small Rural Hospital in Thabo-Mofutsanyana | Survey date unknown, but estimated between 2010 and 2014 |
| South Korea63 | 2.62 cases per 100 HCW-years | Teaching hospital; 94% of cases were NSI | January 1992–December 2001 |
| Taiwan64 | 8,058 percutaneous injuries per 129,548 hospital beds annually (~6 per 100 beds) 8,100 percutaneous injuries per 180,000 HCW FTE annually | National estimates (420 accredited hospitals enrolled in a surveillance program to track blood exposure incidents) | Annually |
| UK65 | 48% of nurses had NSI in career with 10% sustaining an injury in past year | Randomly selected nurse members of Royal College of Nursing | September 2008 |
| USA18 | 24.7 injuries per 100 average daily census | Geographically diverse hospitals across the USA | January 2014–December 2014 |
Abbreviations: EPINet, exposure prevention information network; FTE, full-time equivalent; HCWs, healthcare workers; NSIs, needlestick injuries.