Implementation of the Manual Handling Directive in the healthcare industry in the European Union for patient handling tasks

Hignett, Sue; Fray, Michael; Rossi, Marco; Tamminen-Peter, Leena; Hermann, Sylvia; Lomi, C.; Dockrell, Sara; Cotrim, Teresa; Cantineau, J.B.; Johnsson, Christina

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2007.01.003

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“…As already stated under the heading Current status of research, there are very few controlled intervention studies in Germany indicating that correct back postures and appropriate work aids help to alleviate spinal stresses [9][10][11]. This is not the case in Anglo-Saxon countries, Scandinavia and the Netherlands [16].…”

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Musculo-skeletal Stress When Transferring Totally Dependent Patients

2015

J Ergonomics

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“…Controlled intervention studies in this area are rather rare (e.g. [9][10][11]). Jäger et al [12] succeeded in obtaining alleviation of lumbar spine stresses in nurses during patient transfer with the help of spine-protecting techniques and use of small aids.…”

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Musculo-skeletal Stress When Transferring Totally Dependent Patients

2015

J Ergonomics

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“…• A mix of levels within the actions taken to implement/answer the EC directive on manual handling in healthcare (Hignett et al, 2007). The countries selected for the focus groups were UK, Finland, Italy and Portugal.…”

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A Tool to Compare All Patient Handling Interventions

Fray¹,

Hignett²

2010

Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics Series

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• This is a conference paper. ABSTRACTPatient handling intervention strategies are many and varied. The focus of interventions has primarily been on the health, safety and welfare of care givers. Data from 4 EU focus groups and 2 world-wide expert panels were used to evaluate whether other types of outcomes were perceived as having relative importance. Qualitative and quantitative analysis showed that organisational and patient outcomes were also highly rated by the participants. The data showed 12 outcomes as being of the highest priority with good agreement between the 4 EU sources (Kendall's Concordance significant at 0.005). In parallel, a systematic analysis of patient handling intervention literature was considered to evaluate the qualities of each study. Using the 12 most important outcomes from the initial study and the most appropriate and accessible measurement tools from the literature analysis, the Intervention Evaluation Tool (IET) is proposed. The IET is a single set of measurements that can be used for evaluating all organisational and individual patient handling interventions. The IET has been trialled at 2 sites in 4 EU countries.

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“…A possible reason to why safe patient handling/transfer trainings did not work in practice is the job of the health care workers can be very hard and stressful. Thus, they cannot apply the required movements for safe lifting [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Developing and Designing Patient Handling/Transfer Assistive Devices: Current & Future Designs

Baturalp

2013

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Many health care facilities deal with challenges associated with safe patient handling and movement. Back injuries are a serious problem for nursing personnel who perform frequent patient handling activities. The main objectives of this study are to demonstrate the necessity of patient handling/transfer assistive devices, explore the economic benefits of them, review current assistive patient transfer devices, and investigate design parameters of an ideal patient handling/transfer assistive device. This paper also focuses on the importance of the transdisciplinary collaboration in developing and designing patient handling/transfer assistive devices.

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Implementation of the Manual Handling Directive in the healthcare industry in the European Union for patient handling tasks

Cited by 33 publications

References 16 publications

Musculo-skeletal Stress When Transferring Totally Dependent Patients

Musculo-skeletal Stress When Transferring Totally Dependent Patients

A Tool to Compare All Patient Handling Interventions

Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Developing and Designing Patient Handling/Transfer Assistive Devices: Current & Future Designs

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