Back Injuries (Back Injury)

10/01/2006 - "Not surprisingly, workers with more severe back injuries are more likely to be prescribed opioids, but reasons for prescription disparities based on ethnicity and tobacco use warrant further study."
01/15/2008 - "Prescription of opioids for more than 7 days for workers with acute back injuries is a risk factor for long-term disability. "
01/15/2008 - "We analyzed detailed data reflecting paid bills for opioids prescribed within 6 weeks of the first medical visit for a back injury among 1843 workers with lost work-time claims. "
01/15/2008 - "To examine whether prescription of opioids within 6 weeks of low back injury is associated with work disability at 1 year. "
11/01/2009 - "For the small group of workers with compensable back injuries who receive opioids longer-term (111/1843, 6%), opioid doses increase substantially and only a minority shows clinically important improvement in pain and function. "

01/01/2009 - "Subjects in the AI group may be more susceptible to back injury than the AV group because of the significantly greater trunk hyperextension, and relatively large lumbar spinal loads are expected during the acceleration phase because of the hyperextension posture and profound front-back and bilateral co-activations in lower trunk muscles."
10/01/2010 - "RESULTS.: Disc degeneration did not differ between twins who reported previous back injury and their uninjured co-twins. "

04/01/1999 - "These benefits include reduction of low density lipoproteins while increasing high density lipoprotein; improvement of glucose metabolism in patients with type II diabetes; improved strength, self esteem and body image; and reduction in the occurrence of back injuries. "

04/01/1999 - "These benefits include reduction of low density lipoproteins while increasing high density lipoprotein; improvement of glucose metabolism in patients with type II diabetes; improved strength, self esteem and body image; and reduction in the occurrence of back injuries. "

04/01/1999 - "These benefits include reduction of low density lipoproteins while increasing high density lipoprotein; improvement of glucose metabolism in patients with type II diabetes; improved strength, self esteem and body image; and reduction in the occurrence of back injuries. "

10/01/1990 - "In a controlled study of 284 reported back injuries among underground coal miners, medical costs increased with the case management intervention, although only to the extent of the added costs of the intervention, and disability costs and time lost from work did not decrease. "

01/01/2013 - "These lumbar loads may be a factor in low back injury aetiology and future studies should investigate the relationship between lumbar loading, injury incidence and other risk factors."

09/01/1999 - "High rates of injury, particularly those for back injuries, at an offshore petroleum unit were addressed through an intensive wellness program initiated in 1991. "
09/01/1999 - "Decreased rate of back injuries through a wellness program for offshore petroleum employees."
07/01/1991 - "Trends in rates of low-back strains, low-back impact injuries, and non-low-back injuries among field employees of a petroleum drilling company, 1979-1985, were examined to investigate the relationship between economic factors and the incidence of low-back and other injuries. "
07/01/1991 - "The costs and circumstances of low-back strains, low-back impact injuries, and non-low-back injuries among field employees of an offshore petroleum drilling company, 1979-1985, were compared. "

01/01/2006 - "The Sanitec medical waste disposal system consists of the following seven components: (1) an all-weather steel enclosure of the waste management system, allowing it to be used inside or outside of the hospital center; (2) an automatic mechanical lift-and-load system that protects the workers from devastating back injuries; (3) a sophisticated shredding system designed for medical waste; (4) a series of air filters including the High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter; (5) microwave disinfection of the medical waste material; (6) a waste compactor or dumpster; and (7) an onboard microprocessor. "

03/15/1996 - "Northern blot analysis demonstrated that aortic PAI-1 mRNA expression was 7.6-fold elevated 3 hours (P<.05) after balloon injury, back to baseline at 2 days, increased again at 4 days, and by 7 days after balloon injury was 3.2-fold elevated (P<.05) when compared with control. "

12/01/2003 - "To strengthen the first aid and treatment of cranium-brain injury and chest-back injury is also helpful in decreasing traffic deaths."

09/01/2010 - "STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE: This study has shown that tasks other than patient transfers and lifts are important in the assessment of low back injury risk in nurses. "
01/01/2002 - "Multiple studies have concluded that manual patient transfer and repositioning techniques are a significant cause of low back injuries. "
01/01/2014 - "Daily patient transfer was associated with increased risk for back injury among healthcare workers. "
01/01/2014 - "The population attributable fraction of daily patient transfer for back injury was estimated to be 36%. "
01/01/2014 - "Using logistic regression, the odds for occupational back injury (ie, sudden onset episodes) in 2006 from patient transfers in 2005 was modeled. "

10/01/2010 - ": The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between use of temporary nurses and nurse (needlesticks and back injuries) and patient (patient falls and medication errors) safety outcomes at the nursing unit level. "
04/01/1996 - "The article describes a study that measured, over a 3-month period, staffing problems, including turnover rates; nurse incidents, including absenteeism, back injuries, and needle sticks; and patient incidents, including falls and medication errors. "

11/01/1992 - "Results of this study indicate that female nurses in the early phases of assignment on long term care units are at greatest risk for back injury, but risk factors that relate significantly to the severity of the injury are tour of duty (evening) and weight of the nurse (200 + pounds). "
01/01/1996 - "Within long term care facilities, nurses sustaining back injuries were younger and had been employed for a shorter period of time than the average for all nurses employed in long term care facilities. "
01/01/1996 - "Nurses (combined) had a period prevalence of back injuries nearly 1.5 times higher than all employees of long term care facilities and 6 times higher than all occupations combined industry wide. "
01/01/1996 - "The period prevalence of back injuries to nursing staff in long term care facilities was highest for nurse aides, followed by LPNs and then RNs. "
01/01/1996 - "This report describes the period prevalence and cost of back injuries to nursing staff of long term care facilities in comparison to nurses employed industry wide and to other occupations industry wide. "

04/01/1996 - "To better understand the methodological challenges faced by intervention research in health care, workshops reviewed two intervention studies to reduce back injuries among nursing home staff and two studies on the use of precautions to prevent occupational transmission of bloodborne pathogens. "
09/01/2009 - "A $500 equipment purchase per nursing home worker was associated with a 21% reduction in back injury rate. "
06/01/2002 - "Predictors of shoulder and back injuries in nursing home workers: a prospective study."