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Paradoxical Impact of a Patient-Handling Intervention on Injury Rate Disparity Among Hospital Workers
Author(s) -
Erika L. Sabbath,
Jie Yang,
Jack T. Dennerlein,
Leslie I. Boden,
Dean M. Hashimoto,
Glorian Sorensen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2018.304929
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , intervention (counseling) , confidence interval , rate ratio , health care , public health , occupational safety and health , population , environmental health , nursing , economics , economic growth , pathology
To test whether a comprehensive safe patient-handling intervention, which successfully reduced overall injury rates among hospital workers in a prior study, was differentially effective for higher-wage workers (nurses) versus low-wage workers (patient care associates [PCAs]).

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