| Document ID (ISN) | 106328 |
| CIS number |
07-473 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0339-6517 - Documents pour le médecin du travail |
| Year |
2006 |
| Convention or series no. |
DMT 106 TF148
|
| Author(s) |
Evanoff B. |
| Title |
Ergonomic intervention studies among health care personnel |
| Original title |
Etudes d'intervention ergonomique chez les soignants [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
2nd Quarter 2006, No.106, p.187-194. 5 ref. |
| Internet access |
http://www.dmt-prevention.fr/inrs-pub/inrs01.nsf/IntranetObject-accesParReference/TF%20148/$File/TF148.pdf [in French]
|
| Abstract |
This article provides a review of a seminar held in Saint-Maurice, France, in March 2005 on ergonomic intervention studies aimed at reducing occupational musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) among health care personnel. Topics addressed: methodological aspects of the design of ergonomic studies on MSDs; why the frequency of MSDs among health care personnel is high, and possible role of ergonomic interventions; brief overview of ergonomic intervention studies among health care personnel carried out in St Louis, United States, including in particular the adoption of patient lifting equipment. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
manual lifting; ergonomic evaluation; health care personnel; musculoskeletal diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
USA; France; conference; lifting equipment; hospitals; ergonomics |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Ergonomics and work organization
Commerce, services, offices
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Physiology, ergonomics
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
Health care services
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