Guiding Principles to Ensure Injection Device Security: REFERENCES

Guiding Principles to Ensure Injection Device Security
(2003; 2 pages)

Table of Contents

	BACKGROUND
	INJECTION DEVICE SECURITY
	RECOMMENDATION
	IN PRACTICE
	STRATEGY
	REFERENCES

REFERENCES

1. Hutin YJF, Hauri AM, Armstrong GL. Use of injections in healthcare setting worldwide, 2000. Literature review and regional estimates. BMJ 2003; 327:1075-8.

2. WHO Best infection control practices for skin-piercing intradermal, subcutaneous and intramuscular needle injections. WHO/BCT/DCT 01.02

3. Hauri AM, Armstrong GL, Hutin YJF: Contaminated injections in health care settings. In Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors. Ezzati M, Lopez AD, Rodgers A, Murray CJL. Editors. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003.

4. Hutin YJF, Hauri AM, Chiarello L, Catlin M, Stilwell B, Ghebrehiwet T Garner J and the members of the injection safety best practices development group. Best infection control practices for intradermal, subcutaneous and intramuscular needle injections. Bull World Health Organ 2003; 81:491-500.01.

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6. Logez S. Increased Access to Injection Equipment in Burkina Faso: When Essential Drug programmes Improve Injection Safety. In Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), Annual Meeting Report, 30-31 August 2001. WHO/BCT/DCT/01.04.

7. Dziekan G, Chisholm D, Johns B, Rovira J, Hutin Y. The cost effectiveness of policies for the safe and appropriate use of injection in health care settings. Bull World Health Organ 2003; 81:277-85.

8. ISO standard: ISO 7886 -1: Sterile hypodermic syringes for single use - Part 1: Syringes for manual use, 1993. www.iso.ch

9. WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA Joint statement on the use of auto-disable syringes in immunization services. WHO/V&B/99.25

10.WHO. Tool for the assessment of injection safety, WHO/V&B/01.30

11.WHO. Managing an injection safety policy. March 2003. WHO/BCT/03.01

12.Hart C, M Usher. Contraceptive Security, What Is It and What Best Practices Achieve It? Arlington, VA.: DELIVER/John Snow, Inc. Presented in Cairo at the WHO Inter-country Meeting with Partners and Country Teams: Best Practices to Improve Reproductive Health. 2002

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