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2 Literature search: Methods and general results<br />

2 Literature search: Methods and general results<br />

A comprehensive search <strong>of</strong> the National Library <strong>of</strong> Medicine (NLM) literature indexing<br />

database (MEDLINE) was completed using the PubMed system. MEDLINE includes<br />

articles indexed since 1966, and currently includes over 4,800 journals published in<br />

70 countries. The database includes journals in the fields <strong>of</strong> medicine, nursing,<br />

dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care administration and policy, as well as life,<br />

behavioral, and chemical sciences, and bioengineering [16].<br />

Because <strong>of</strong> our interest in identifying the maximum pool <strong>of</strong> articles potentially relevant<br />

<strong>to</strong> each major aim, we completed several PubMed searches and reviewed the bibli-<br />

ographies <strong>of</strong> key review articles. Initial PubMed searches were completed on Novem-<br />

ber 4, 2004, and updated on April 26, 2005. There was a substantial degree <strong>of</strong> over-<br />

lap <strong>among</strong> results <strong>of</strong> all searches (Table 2, see page 88); after removal <strong>of</strong> duplicates,<br />

1,069 unique references were identified.<br />

Report „Needlestick <strong>injuries</strong>“ 19

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