We are releasing our 2016 EPINet BBFE data in the coming weeks to our site (thank you Melanie!) and are analyzing 2017 now.

Attaching last five years (2012-2016) BBFE data for you all to have.  I only ask that you not distribute it, but feel free to use it internally to compare.

2015: https://internationalsafetycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Official-2015-BBFSummary.pdf (all archived years are here too, going back to mid-1990s)

2016 (attached.)

Note: Q8 and Q10 – majority of exposures to unprotected eyes!

Let me know if you all want additional data from our EPINet aggregate.

Amber

Amber H Mitchell, DrPH, MPH, CPH

President | Executive Director

Email | amber.mitchell@internationalsafetycenter.org

Web | www.internationalsafetycenter.org

Safer Workers | Better Healthcare TM

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net> On Behalf Of Swift, Melanie D., M.D. via MCOH-EH
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 12:41 PM
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Cc: Swift, Melanie D., M.D. <Swift.Melanie@mayo.edu>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] [EXTERNAL] Blood and body fluid exposures

Tim,  you can do ongoing benchmarking by participating in the OHSN (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ohsn/default.html)or Epinet. (https://internationalsafetycenter.org/exposure-reports/)That’s really the only way to compare apples to apples, so to speak.
Melanie

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On May 15, 2018, at 12:17 PM, Timothy Herrick <herrickt@ohsu.edu> wrote:

There may be some more official data somewhere, but for comparability  and for talking with management, we’d love to have an idea of roughly how other institutions are faring in terms of BBFE’s. [of course we realize that differing institutions may have different experiences with how well the BBFE’s are disclosed, but we’ll have to take what we can get. ]      it would be great if the info was given as number of  bbfe’s over a certain time period, with the bedcount of the hospital for comparability’s sake.

For example, in our hospital of 522 beds had 144 BBFE’s in the last six months.         [About six were double exposures]

Tim Herrick md

Oregon Health and Sciences university       

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