A randomized controlled trial to prevent patient lift and transfer injuries of health care workers

Spine

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 1739-1746

  Yassi, A ^a,c   Cooper, J E ^a,b   Tate, R B ^a   Gerlach, S ^c   Muir, M ^c   Trottier, J ^c   Massey, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Back injury; Health care workers; Prevention; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LIFTING EFFORT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SHOULDER PAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

BACK INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; LIFTING; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035882154     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200108150-00002     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Back pain in hospital workers
2. Incidence, prevalence, and variables associated with low back pain in staff nurses
3. The lifting team: A design method to reduce lost time back injury in nursing
4. Components of initial and residual disability after back injury in nurses
5. Regression models and life tables
6. A controlled trial of an educational program to prevent low back injuries
7. Biomechanical analysis of peak and cumulative spinal loads during patient handling activities: A substudy of a randomized controlled trial to prevent lift and transfer injury health care workers
8. The Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire
9. A biomechanical and ergonomic evaluation of patient transferring tasks: Wheelchair to shower chair and shower chair to wheelchair
10. A biomechanical and ergonomic evaluation of patient transferring tasks: Bed to wheelchair and wheelchair to bed
11. Work incapacity from low back pain in the general population
12. Work-related back pain in nurses
13. Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder and hand)
14. Injuries and illnesses among hospital workers in Ohio: A study of workers' compensation claims from 1993 to 1996
15. Health care concerns related to lifting: An inside look at intervention strategies
16. Statistical aspects of the analysis of data from retrospective studies of disease
17. Reducing risk for back pain in nursing personnel
18. Patient handling devices: An ergonomic approach to lifting patients
19. Back pain in nurses: Epidemiology and risk assessment
20. Point of view
21. Manual lifting activities and risk of low back pain in nurses
22. Backing out, nurse wastage associated with back pain
23. The MOS-36 Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36): I. Conceptual framework and item selection
24. The cost of 1989 workers' compensation low back pain claims
25. An evaluation of patient lifting techniques
26. The epidemiology of back injuries in nurses at a large Canadian tertiary care hospital: Implications for prevention
27. A 5.5 year follow-up of back injured nurses: Perception of workplace conditions