Traditionally, health care worker injury exposure data is analyzed one category at a time, which tends to isolate the researcher from a more global perspective of an industry-wide analysis. The Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology provides an industry-wide analysis that facilitates a wide-angle view of the dangers of working in health care, by focusing on the major categories of health care worker injury:
needlesticks, the most prevalent risk
back injury, the most expensive risk
violence and assault-health care workers account for more than half of all assaulted service workers
infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis C
latex allergy, which now affects almost 10% of health-care workers
managed care and its profound effect on the injury rates through downsizing, deskilling, and increased acuity
injuries to different populations of health care workers
home health care injury rates
long-term care injuries, which have doubled in the last decade
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Health care is fast becoming one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
annual excess risk, health care worker injury, lifetime occupational risk, state fund employers, nursing home employers, developing active disease, systemic allergic response, other occupational settings, skin testing results, latex sensitized, tire particles, nursing home workers, skin test conversions, lifetime risk estimates, overexertion injuries, sharps injuries, latex sensitization, case death rate, occupational transmission, home health care workers, quantitative risk estimates, other work settings, average lifetime risk, infection control measures, material impairment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York, North Carolina, Department of Labor, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Occup Med, New Jersey, American Journal of Infection Control, Journal of Occupational Medicine, Infect Dis, Los Angeles, Service Employees International Union, Essentials of Modern Hospital Safety, Estimates of Annual Background, Excess Occupational Risk Infection Rate State, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Population Estimate Annual, Referent Year, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia New!
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United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York, North Carolina, Department of Labor, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Occup Med, New Jersey, American Journal of Infection Control, Journal of Occupational Medicine, Infect Dis, Los Angeles, Service Employees International Union, Essentials of Modern Hospital Safety, Estimates of Annual Background, Excess Occupational Risk Infection Rate State, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Population Estimate Annual, Referent Year, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia New!
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- North Carolina (United States) by Julie Murray on page 119, and page 120
- Shift Work: The Social, Psychological, and Physical Consequences by Paul Mott on page 29
- Occupational Medicine by Joseph Ladou on page 30
- Biological Rhythms, Sleep and Performance (Wiley series on studies in human performance) by Wilse B. Webb on page 30
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- Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts by William Charney on page 158
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