Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting
| Autor: | Ethan Joshua Fricklas, Yeu Li Yeung, Douglas J. Myers, Marissa Pentico, Tamara James, Ashley L. Schoenfisch, Hester J. Lipscomb, Lisa A. Pompeii |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Patient Transfer
Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Safety Management Nursing staff Hospital setting Equipment use Statistics as Topic Psychological intervention Hospitals Community Health Promotion Nursing Staff Hospital Patient lift Single measure Nursing Patient Handling Accidents Occupational Humans Medicine Workplace Occupational Health Moving and Lifting Patients Lift (data mining) business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Organizational Policy United States Medical emergency business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 54:935-945 |
| ISSN: | 0271-3586 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ajim.20998 |
| Popis: | Background Interventions to reduce patient-handling injuries in the hospital setting are often evaluated based on their effect on outcomes such as injury rates. Measuring intervention adoption could address how and why observed trends in the outcome occurred. Methods Unit-level data related to adoption of patient lift equipment were systematically collected at several points in time over 5 years on nursing units at two hospitals, including hours of lift equipment use, equipment accessibility, and supply purchases and availability. Results Various measures of adoption highlighted the adoption process' gradual nature and variability by hospital and between units. No single measure adequately assessed adoption. Certain measures appear well-correlated. Conclusion Future evaluation of primary preventive efforts designed to prevent patient-handling injuries would be strengthened by objective data on intermediate measures that reflect intervention implementation and adoption. Am. J. Ind. Med. 54:935–945, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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