- ►bmj.com JW Collins, L Wolf, J Bell, B Evanoff - British Medical Journal, 2004 - injuryprevention.bmj.com Design: A pre-post intervention trial and cost benefit analysis at six nursing
homes from January 1995 through December 2000. The intervention was established
in January 1998 and injury rates, injury related costs and benefits, and ... Cited by 75 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
A Nelson, M Matz, F Chen, K Siddharthan, J … - International journal of nursing studies, 2006 - Elsevier The primary goal of this program was to create safer working environments for
nursing staff who provide direct patient care. Our first objective was to design
and implement a multifaceted program that successfully integrated ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - All 14 versions
B Evanoff, L Wolf, E Aton, J Canos, J Collins - American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2003 - nycosh.org Background Health care workers incur frequent injuries resulting from patient
transfer and handling tasks. Few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of
mechanical lifts in preventing injuries and time loss due to these ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►nursingworld.org A Nelson, AS Baptiste - Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 2006 - Springer Strategies to prevent or minimize work-related musculoskeletal injuries
associated with patient han- dling are often based on tradition and personal
expe- rience rather than scientific evidence. The most common ... Cited by 56 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
J Li, L Wolf, B Evanoff - Injury Prevention, 2004 - injuryprevention.bmj.com Main outcome measures: Workers completed symptom surveys at baseline and six
months after lift training. Pre-intervention and post-intervention rates of
injuries and lost workday injuries using Occupational Safety and Health ... Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
A Nelson, JD Lloyd, N Menzel, C Gross - AAOHN journal: official journal of the American …, 2003 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The researchers identified nine patient handling tasks that place nursing staff
at high risk for musculoskeletal injuries. An expert panel redesigned these
tasks using new patient handling technologies and work practice controls. ... Cited by 35 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
A Nelson, G Fragala, N Menzel - AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 2003 - journals.lww.com Hospitals and nursing homes have spent considerable time and effort attempting
to prevent back injuries among nurses, with little improvement in the inci-
dence or severity of musculoskeletal injuries. In 1989 there were 4.2 lost- ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►springerpub.com [PDF] A Nelson, B Owen, JD Lloyd, G Fragala, MW … - AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 2003 - journals.lww.com Nurses have long known that manually lifting and transferring dependent patients
is a high-risk activity, for both nurse and patient. In the 1960s and 1970s, the
rate of work-related back problems in nursing was one of the highest of any ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
WS Marras, KG Davis, BC Kirking, PK … - Ergonomics, 1999 - biodynamics.osu.edu Although patient handlers suŒer from low-back injuries at an alarming rate
worldwide, there has been limited research quantifying the risk for the speci®c
tasks performed by the patient handlers. The current study used both a ... Cited by 142 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 7 versions
