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Using Digital Human Modelling to Evaluate the Risk of Musculoskeletal Injury for Workers in the Healthcare Industry

Sensors, 2023
Background: Hospital nurses and caregivers are reported to have the highest number of workplace injuries every year, which directly leads to missed days of work, a large amount of compensation costs, and staff shortage issues in the healthcare industry ...
Xiaoxu Ji, Ranuki O. Hettiarachchige, Alexa L. E. Littman, Davide Piovesan   +3 more
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Development of Screening Tools to Predict Medication-Related Problems Across the Continuum of Emergency Department Care: A Prospective, Multicenter Study

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Background: Medication-related problems (MRPs) occur across the continuum of emergency department (ED) care: they may contribute to ED presentation, occur in the ED/short-stay unit (SSU), at hospital admission, or shortly after discharge to the community.
Simone E. Taylor, Simone E. Taylor, Simone E. Taylor, Elise A. Mitri, Elise A. Mitri, Andrew M. Harding, Andrew M. Harding, David McD Taylor, David McD Taylor, David McD Taylor, Adrian Weeks, Adrian Weeks, Leonie Abbott, Pani Lambros, Pani Lambros, Dona Lawrence, Dona Lawrence, Dana Strumpman, Reyhan Senturk-Raif, Stephen Louey, Hamish Crisp, Emily Tomlinson, Elizabeth Manias   +22 more
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Musculoskeletal Disorders among Thai Hospital Orderlies

International Journal of Occupational Hygiene, 2015
Musculoskeletal problems, resulting from lifting and transferring patients, are often reported among hospital orderlies worldwide. The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders in Thai ...
WITHAYA CHANCHAI, WANPEN SONGKHAM, PRANOM KETSOMPORN, PUNNARAT SAPPAKITCHANCHAI, WATTASIT SIRIWONG   +4 more
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Facilitators and inhibitors of traumatic brain injury transfers: A fieldwork investigation

Nursing Open, 2023
Aim Intensified healthcare specialization has increased the need for patient transfers. We aimed to describe in‐hospital and interhospital patient transfer decisions during the traumatic brain injury (TBI) trajectory from a nursing perspective.
Karin Højbjerg, Ingrid Poulsen, Ingrid Egerod   +2 more
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Participatory organizational intervention for improved use of assistive devices in patient transfer: a single-blinded cluster randomized controlled trial

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2019
OBJECTIVES: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated the effect of a participatory organizational intervention for improved use of assistive devices (AD) in patient transfer.
Markus D Jakobsen, Birgit Aust, Pete Kines, Pascal Madeleine, Lars L Andersen   +4 more
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Family-Centered Care and the Inter-Hospital Transport of Critically Ill Neonates

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2020
Background: Safe inter-hospital transfer of high-risk neonate is a part of hospital care. Due to the high rate of inter-hospital transport and the importance of family presence as a key element in infant care (family-centered care), this study aimed to ...
Mahsa Moghaddari, Yadollah zahedpasha, Soraya Khafri, Afsaneh Arzani   +3 more
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Association of transfer time and delays with outcomes for patients with acute pulmonary embolism requiring interhospital transfer: a retrospective observational study

Annals of Medicine
Background Interhospital transfer (IHT) for pulmonary embolism (PE) is increasingly performed to improve access to advanced reperfusion therapies, but it is unclear if IHT times influence overall outcomes.
Priyanka Sridhar, Hong Yu Wang, Avinash Singh, Abdul Rehman, Agostina Velo, Destiny Nguyen, Jason Filopei, Madeline Ehrlich, Robert Lookstein, David Steiger   +9 more
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Evaluation of effectiveness of MAPO and PTAI methods in estimation musculoskeletal disorders risk

Salāmat-i kār-i Īrān, 2013
Background and aims: Nursing job requires significant physical and psychological activities, thus, it is considered as a high risk occupation for developing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
Roghaeh Abedini, Alireza Choobineh, Jafar Hasanzadeh   +2 more
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Aeromedical Transfer of Patients with Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
For >40 years, the British Royal Air Force has maintained an aeromedical evacuation facility, the Deployable Air Isolator Team (DAIT), to transport patients with possible or confirmed highly infectious diseases to the United Kingdom. Since 2012, the DAIT,
Edward D. Nicol, Stephen Mepham, Jonathan Naylor, Ian Mollan, Matthew Adam, Joanna d’Arcy, Philip Gillen, Emma Vincent, Belinda Mollan, David Mulvaney, Andrew Green, Michael Jacobs   +11 more
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Time from injury to acute surgery for patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injury in South-East Norway

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundThe recommended treatment for cervical spinal cord injury (cSCI) is surgical decompression and stabilization within 24 h after injury. The aims of the study were to estimate our institutional compliance with this recommendation and identify ...
Mads Aarhus, Mads Aarhus, Jalal Mirzamohammadi, Pål Andre Rønning, Mona Strøm, Thomas Glott, Syed Ali Mujtaba Rizvi, Donata Biernat, Håvard Ølstørn, Pål Nicolay Fougner Rydning, Vidar Tveit Vasfaret Stenset, Pål Aksel Næss, Pål Aksel Næss, Christine Gaarder, Christine Gaarder, Tor Brommeland, Hege Linnerud, Eirik Helseth, Eirik Helseth   +18 more
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