Identification, Evaluation and Control of Physically Demanding Patient-Handling Tasks in an Acute Care Facility
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are prevalent among health care workers worldwide and underreporting among nurses may mask the true impact of these injuries. Nursing staff are consistently among the top 10 occupations at risk for experiencing WMSDs and patient-handling tasks are the p...
Main Author: | Callison, Myrna |
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Other Authors: | Industrial and Systems Engineering |
Format: | Others |
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26561 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302009-161650/ |
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