High risk for occupational exposure to HIV and utilization of post-exposure prophylaxis in a teaching hospital in Pune, India

Table 2 Average incidence of exposures by job category per 100 person-years (PY) at an urban teaching hospital in Pune, India 2003–2005.

Job category	Number employed*	Total exposures per 100 PY	Percutaneous exposures per 100 PY	Mucocutaneous exposures per 100 PY	High-risk exposure per 100 PY**
Interns	210	47.0	38.9	8.1	25.2
Residents	300	14.1	10.8	3.3	9.3
Student Nurses	120	9.4	6.1	3.1	6.7
Nurses	703	2.0	0.3	1.7	1.3
Other	622	3.1	2.8	0.4	2.0
Total	1955	9.5	7.7	1.8	6.8

*Number of employees per year in each job category was assumed to have remained stable over the 3-year period.
**High risk exposure defined as an exposure fro which PEP is recommended according to US CDC guidelines (1) and includes: (1) cases in which source tested or was known to be HIV positive, (2) cases where source was judged to be at high risk for HIV by clinicians, and (3) cases where source status and/or risk for HIV remained unknown.

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