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Auditing Occupational Medicine [PDF]

Occupational Medicine, 1999
An important challenge facing the quality of practice in occupational medicine is a limited evidence-base, but equally important is the need to translate good evidence into high quality practice. Audit has an important role to play in addressing the determinants of variations in practice.
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Development of Evidence Based Medical Surveillance Program Recommendations for At-Risk Employees [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Nearly eight million United States healthcare workers are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs (HDs) in their workplace. This exposure puts staff at increased risk of acute myeloid leukemia, breast cancer, rectal cancer, and fetal anomalies.
Okrant, Jessica C
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Managing employees with dementia: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2019
Background: The experience of developing dementia while in employment has been explored from the point of view of the employee, but less is known about the perspectives, experiences and needs of employers.
Dening, Tom, Griffiths, Amanda, Heron, Richard, Stanyon, Miriam, Thomson, Louise   +4 more
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The abolition of the General Teaching Council for England and the future of teacher discipline [PDF]

, 2012
With the abolition of the General Teaching Council for England in the 2011 Education Act, this article considers the future of teacher discipline in England.
Ackroyd S., Avis J., Ball K., Ball S., Barber M., Bogler R., Bushnell M., Clegg S., Collinson D., Covaleski M.A., Damien Page, de Wolf I., Evans L., Evans L., Evetts J., Evetts J., Fleming P., Forrester G., Foucault M., Foucault M., Gabriel Y., Gewirtz S., Hoggett P., Kirk G., Knights D., Mather K., Morris P., Mumby D.K., Noon M., Noordegraaf M., Ofsted, Perryman J., Perryman J., Piro J., Prasad A., Taylor P., Thompson P., Vardi Y., Wilkins C., Wragg E., Yariv E.   +40 more
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Towards better understanding of factors contributing to medical physicist well‐being in academic medical centers: A systems‐analysis approach

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract The well‐being of medical physicists can impact overall system performance, patient safety, and quality of patient care. There are limited formal assessments of factors contributing to physicists well‐being. Nine medical physicists at a US academic medical center were surveyed on 21 workplace factors, drawn from the National Academy of ...
Elizabeth Kwong, Chao Chin Liu, Karthik Adapa, Lisa Vizer, Brian Anderson, Damian McHugh, Todd Pawlicki, Moyed Miften, Amit Sawant, Nadia Charguia, Shiva Das, Lawrence B. Marks, Jean L. Wright, Lukasz Mazur   +13 more
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In this issue of Occupational Medicine [PDF]

Occupational Medicine, 2008
Our two editorials consider the impact of the UK's 1974 Health & Safety at Work etc. Act, 40 years after it became the central piece of legislation intended to protect work- ers and the public from harm caused by work activities. Karen Clayton of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) (1) highlights the reduction in the number of workplace fatalities and ...
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Clinical Trial Readiness in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy R1 (LGMDR1): A GRASP Consortium Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Identifying functional measures that are both valid and reliable in the limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) population is critical for quantifying the level of functional impairment related to disease progression in order to establish clinical trial readiness in the context of anticipated therapeutic trials.
Stephanie M. Hunn, Lindsay N. Alfano, Aileen Jones, Amanda Butler, Linda P. Lowes, Megan A. Iammarino, Natalie F. Reash, Lindsay Pietruszewski, Sandhya Sasidharan, Melissa Currence, Jeffrey M. Statland, Talia Strahler, Robert Will, Matthew Wicklund, Stacy Dixon, Renee Augsburger, Tahseen Mozaffar, Katie M. Laubscher, Shelley R. H. Mockler, Katherine D. Mathews, Nikia Stinson, Doris G. Leung, Molly M. Stark, Rebecca A. Horton, Peter B. Kang, Meredith K. James, Amanda Clause, Conrad C. Weihl, Nicholas E. Johnson, GRASP‐LGMD Consortium   +29 more
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EEG Response to Sedation Interruption Complements Behavioral Assessment After Severe Brain Injury

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Accurate assessment of the level of consciousness and potential to recover in patients with severe brain injury underpins crucial decisions in the intensive care unit but remains a major challenge for the clinical team. The neurological wake‐up test is a widely used assessment tool. However, many patients' behavioral responses during
Charlotte Maschke, Loretta Norton, Catherine Duclos, Miriam Han, Kira Dolhan, Geoffrey Laforge, Allison Frantz, Xiaoyu Wang, Hassan Al‐Hayawi, Tianyu Zhang, Raphaël Lavoie, Adrian M. Owen, Stefanie Blain‐Moraes   +12 more
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Bernardino Ramazzini, three hundred years after his death, Padua (Italy), October 18th, 2014 [PDF]

, 2015
open2noThe year 2014 has marked the tercentenary from the death of Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714), universally credited as the founder of Occupational Health (5, 9, 10, 11).
Riva, Michele Augusto, Zampieri, Fabio
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Global Trends in Risk Factors for Low Back Pain: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study Data From 1990 to 2021

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The increasing burden associated with low back pain (LBP) is a critical issue. This is a novel analysis of trends in risk factors for LBP aiming to identify risk factors that require further attention or consideration in global policies to reduce the burden of LBP.
Katharine E. Roberts, Manuela L. Ferreira, Paula R. Beckenkamp, Sneha Nicholson, Lyn March, Paulo H. Ferreira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source