Blunt needles vs sharp needles: glove perforations per surgeon per operation
Blunt needles leads to lower glove perforations per surgeon per operation compared with sharp needles (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Blunt needles vs sharp needles glove perforations per surgeon per operation · surgical staff Blunt needles leads to lower glove perforations per surgeon per operation compared with sharp needles (high certainty). Blunt versus sharp suture needles for preventing percutaneous exposure incidents in surgical staff (2011) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.46 [0.38, 0.54] | 10 studies · 2961 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blunt versus sharp suture needles for preventing percutaneous exposure incidents in surgical staff 2011 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.