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In the heady days after passage of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act in 2000, zero needlesticks was an aim worth striving for and some lofty goals were on the table. HealthyPeople 2010 set a goal of reducing needlesticks by 30% — from a baseline of 384,000 among hospital-based health care workers in 1998 to 269,000 in 2010.

Health care workers still suffer 320,000 needlesticks a year