Evaluation of a Safe Resident Handling Program in U.S. Nursing Homes

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• Personal Author:
  Gold JE ; Kurowski A ; Lahiri S ; Punnett, Laura
• Corporate Authors:
  ProCare Research Team
• Description:
  How effective are safe resident handling programs? In a 10-year research project, a team at the Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) set out to measure the impact of one such program that was implemented across 200 nursing home centres. In this plenary, project manager Alicia Kurowski shares the team's findings on outcomes such as ergonomic exposures, self-reported back pain, injury rates, return-to-work outcomes and return on investment. For a PDF copy of slides from this presentation, use this link: https://www.iwh.on.ca/sites/iwh/files/iwh/presentations/iwh_plenary_2017_06_13_akurowski.pdf [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Health Care Workers Injuries Intervention Effectiveness Lifting Low Back Pain MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Patient Handling Total Worker Health TWH Workers Compensation

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• Publisher:
  Institute for Work & Health (IWH)
• Document Type:
  Moving Image
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Videorecording
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056299
• Citation:
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Institute for Work & Health (IWH), 2017 Jun; :37:56
• Email:
  Alicia_Kurowski@uml.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Public Safety ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060701
• Source Full Name:
  Evaluation of a safe resident handling program in U.S. nursing homes
• End Date:
  20210831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3cf3896a1bebe453b74ae8012e7357a8545fb28827887ef6d71ceceed6e2a1d33a0bca08eb881881cab659d4dff411aaf3f179bbd6ab921bacc365a89a6429dd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213931/cdc_213931_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 751.64 KB ]