Work experience, work environment, and blood exposure among home care and hospice nursesJack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, USA
Ind Health 50:521-8. 2012
..These results suggest that characteristics of the home care/hospice work environment limit nurses' ability to use their experience to prevent blood exposure...
Using mixture models with linear predictors to identify incorrect gestational age in state birth recordsJack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, Mebane, NC 27302, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 26:468-78. 2012
..The objective of this study was to determine which maternal and infant factors to include in the mixture models to obtain the best fitting models for New Jersey state birth records...
- Provision and use of personal protective equipment among home care and hospice nurses in North Carolina
Jack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, 6919 Lee Street, Mebane, NC 27302, USA
Am J Infect Control 39:123-8. 2011
..We investigated the frequency with which home care/hospice nurses are provided with and use personal protective equipment (PPE) and factors associated with use...
- Provision and use of safety-engineered medical devices among home care and hospice nurses in North Carolina
Jack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, Mebane, NC 27302, USA
Am J Infect Control 38:636-9. 2010
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U.S. Maternally linked birth records may be biased for Hispanics and other population groupsJack K Leiss
Center for Health Research, Constella Group, Durham, NC, USA
Ann Epidemiol 20:23-31. 2010
..We sought to advance understanding of linkage error in U.S. maternally linked datasets and how the error might affect results of studies based on the linked data...
- Management practices and risk of occupational blood exposure in U.S. paramedics: non-intact skin exposure
Jack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, 6919 Lee Street, Mebane, NC 27302, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:884-90. 2009
..To estimate the risk of blood exposure to non-intact skin in U.S. paramedics; to estimate risk ratios for selected management practices...
- Blood exposure incidence rates from the North Carolina study of home care and hospice nurses
Jack K Leiss
Center for Health Research, Constella Group, LLC, Durham, North Carolina
Am J Ind Med 52:99-104. 2009
..Home care/hospice nurses may be at elevated risk of blood exposure because of the nature of their work and work environment. However, little is known about the incidence of blood exposure in this population...
- Provision and use of personal protective equipment and safety devices in the National Study to Prevent Blood Exposure in Paramedics
Rahel Mathews
Center for Health Research, Constella Group, LLC, Durham, NC 27713, USA
Am J Infect Control 36:743-9. 2008
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- Circumstances surrounding occupational blood exposure events in the National Study to Prevent Blood Exposure in Paramedics
Jack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, 6919 Lee Street, Mebane, NC 27302, USA
Ind Health 47:139-44. 2009
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- Management practices and risk of occupational blood exposure in U.S. paramedics: Needlesticks
Jack K Leiss
Epidemiology Research Program, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, Mebane, North Carolina 27302, USA
Am J Ind Med 53:866-74. 2010
..The purpose of this study was to present risk estimates for needlestick in U.S. paramedics and estimated risk ratios for selected management practices...
- Blood exposure among paramedics: incidence rates from the national study to prevent blood exposure in paramedics
Jack K Leiss
Constella Health Sciences, Constella Group, Inc, Durham, NC 27713, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:720-5. 2006
..More attention should be given to reducing mucocutaneous exposures. The impact of legislation on reducing exposures and the importance of nonintact skin exposures need to be better understood...
- A new method for measuring misclassification of maternal sets in maternally linked birth records: true and false linkage proportions
Jack K Leiss
Center for Health Research, Constella Group, LLC, 2605 Meridian Parkway, Suite 200, Durham, NC 27713, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:293-300. 2007
..The author developed a framework for conceptualizing maternal linkage error and measures for quantifying it, and examined the behavior of the new measures in a maternally linked file...
- Using formative research to design an epidemiologic survey: the north Carolina study of home care and hospice nurses
Jack K Leiss
Constella Group, Durham, NC, USA
Epidemiol Health 33:e2011008. 2011
..The objective of this paper is to describe the use of three formative research techniques in designing a survey of home care and hospice nurses...
