Low back injuries among nursing personnel. an annotated bibliography.

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• Personal Author:
  Jensen RC ; Myers AH ; Nestor D ; Rattiner J
• Description:
  This annotated bibliography was been prepared on research concerning low back injuries among nursing personnel. It included abstracts of 90 documents, including four articles that provide a synthesis of multiple studies on a particular issue, 12 state of the art reviews, and 74 articles that report original research on the topic. The studies reported were summarized in terms of five categories: type of investigation, workers studied, measurement methods, findings about suspected risk factors, and findings about programs for reducing risk. There were four major types of investigations including cross sectional surveys, longitudinal studies, laboratory experiments, and field studies. One subject area in which there was very little research was home health care nursing. Measurement methods employed included surveys or consulting employer records of injuries and compensation claims. Inconsistent results were obtained by studies on risk factors; personal factors such as age and gender were the most widely studied. Approaches for reducing the risk have included training in patient handling and/or body mechanics.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Butadienes Hydrocarbons Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Back-injuries Bibliographies Epidemiology Health-care-personnel Musculoskeletal-system-disorders NIOSH-Author Safety-research
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-118
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00186703
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1988 Jan; :1-118
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1988
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e6b0f80a3794363e3283e2a389856d279e89728d5910174633d2916356c35b08cf3ba00bb0d0fa1a070ee5d362a1b247ab44ecd6309e8ca93588b0ecfc5c8d6a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180237/cdc_180237_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.18 MB ]