Prioritizing Back Injury Risk in Hospital Employees
| Autor: | Susan C. Loomis, Elisha H. Atkins, Rose H. Goldman, Michael R. Jarrard, Rokho Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Nurses Injury rate Risk Assessment Back injury Teaching hospital Occupational medicine Injury Severity Score Risk Factors Absenteeism Confidence Intervals Prevalence medicine Humans Registries Hospitals Teaching Employer Health Costs Health Priorities business.industry Data Collection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Hospital employees Middle Aged medicine.disease United States Occupational Diseases Personnel Hospital Emergency medicine Back Injuries Costs and Cost Analysis Physical therapy Female Occupational exposure business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 42:645-652 |
| ISSN: | 1076-2752 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00043764-200006000-00016 |
| Popis: | To identify high risk areas for back injury in a large teaching hospital, we calculated standard injury rates and newly developed composite statistics for nursing and non-nursing work groups. Data were extracted from the hospital's workers' compensation database. The hospital-wide total injury rate was 4.6 reports per 100 full-time equivalents (FTE); Compensation Case Rate, 1.4 cases per 100 FTE; Compensation Severity Rate, 76 days lost per 100 FTE; and the Cost Rate, $3742 per 100 FTE. The Total Injury Reports Rate for nursing varied from 14.2 per 100 FTE for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nursing to 3.8 per 100 FTE for Pediatric Nursing. Non-nursing areas also demonstrated increased rates for back injury. Individual statistical rates ranked areas differently in risk, whereas composite statistical measures consistently ranked ICU Nursing, Buildings and Grounds, and Orthopedics/Neurological Nursing as the top three. Patient handling was the precipitating event in the majority of nursing back injuries, indicating the need for ergonomic intervention. The use of combined statistical measures provided a more integrative measure for describing and following back injury risk over time. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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