Awareness and Perspectives of Doctors on Needle Stick Injuries at Port Sudan Teaching Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project.

Cureus · 2025 · PMC12659922 · PMID 41322947

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There was an increase in awareness of the definition of PEP (69.8%-81.8%; p = 0.172) and recognition of the initiation within 72 hours (34.0%-77.3%, highly significant change, p < 0.001).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.073so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

With regard to immediate first-aid measures, washing the site with soap and water improved from 41/53 (77.4%) in Cycle 1 to 40/44 (90.9%) in Cycle 2, although this difference did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.073).

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