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Redesigning Patient Handling Tasks to Prevent Nursing Back Injuries

NCT00012844 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 134

Last updated 2015-04-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is one of several initiated by the investigators to reduce musculoskeletal injuries in patient care providers. Nurses have one of the highest incidences of work related back injuries of any profession. Over the past 20 years, efforts to reduce work-related injuries in nursing have been largely unsuccessful.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Redesigning patient handling tasks using equip: Arjo Bianca Overhead Lift, Hill-Rom Resident Transfer Device, TranSit Chair, Total Care Bed

PROCEDURE

Redesigned patient handling tasks using work practice controls: setting bed height at correct level; applying anti-embolism stockings from foot of bed

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Audrey L. Nelson, RN PhD FAAN · James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Completion
1999-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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