National Estimates of Home Care Workers Nonfatal Emergency Department–Treated Injuries, United States 2015–2020

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Derk, Susan J. ; Hendricks, Kitty J. ; Hartley, Dan
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  Home care workers (HCWs) are a critical resource contributing to the well-being of others. Presented are data on HCWs nonfatal emergency department (ED)–treated injuries.
  
  Methods:
  
  Nonfatal injuries among HCWs were extracted from the NEISS-Work data between 2015 and 2020.
  
  Results:
  
  Review of NEISS-Work data indicated 117,000 HCWs with nonfatal ED-treated injuries; female HCWs accounted for 93%. Overexertion and bodily reactions accounted for 52% of the injuries. Violence and other injuries by persons or animals accounted for 15% and falls, slips, and trips also accounted for 15% of the HCWs ED-treated injuries.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  The growing demand for home care services is increasing the number of workers at risk for injury. Future analyses should prioritize injury events among HCWs to gain a better understanding of the events contributing to injuries among HCWs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Emergency Service, Hospital Fatigue Female Home Care Services Home Health Aides Humans Population Surveillance United States Wounds And Injuries
• Keywords:
  Health Care Home Health Aides Injury Personal Care Aides Surveillance Work
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 66(1):e26-e31
• Pubmed ID:
  37853688
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11287477
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dbdc0164fc38d8bc12d4b0e8e0e28cbf84d20fe7910a4eeeb7c26db736487a5923f9fb52716cfca069a994a4aeba95d7e57f3c0c052c19feb755f3259c7048db
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