Patient Handling in the Healthcare Sector
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Patient Handling in the Healthcare Sector

A Guide for Risk Management with MAPO Methodology (Movement and Assistance of Hospital Patients)

  1. 223 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Patient Handling in the Healthcare Sector

A Guide for Risk Management with MAPO Methodology (Movement and Assistance of Hospital Patients)

About this book

Hospital staff and caregivers are regularly exposed to biomechanical overload risk, particularly at spine and shoulder level—a risk factor that will continue to rise with the progressive aging of the population. Patient Handling in the Healthcare Sector: A Guide for Risk Management with MAPO Methodology (Movement and Assistance of Hospital Patients) details the analysis of patient handling risk using the MAPO method in different areas of healthcare and helps you develop strategies to mitigate them.

Focusing on the organization of work, this approach gives you the tools to:



  • Rapidly analyse the problem
  • Rapidly identify solutions
  • Effectively monitor the results of preventive actions

One of the special features of this approach is that it employs tools that allow you to allocate financial resources to estimate what investments are needed to achieve specific results. This means taking the decision-making process out of the hands of ergonomics experts and putting it into those of healthcare facility administrators.

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Yes, you can access Patient Handling in the Healthcare Sector by Olga Menoni,Natale Battevi,Silvia Cairoli in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Service Industry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781482217193
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Service Industry
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. The Authors
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction : A Brief History of the MAPO Index Equation and Relationship with a Specific Preventive Plan
  7. Chapter 2: A Review of Work-­Related MSDs in Caregivers
  8. Chapter 3: Manual Handling in the Healthcare Sector : The International Approach to Risk Assessment
  9. Chapter 4: Manual Patient-­Handling Risks : Occupational Biomechanics (Biomechanical Hazards of Manual Patient Handling)
  10. Chapter 5: Methods and Criteria for Analyzing Manual Patient Handling by Healthcare Workers
  11. Chapter 6: MAPO Index Validation : Studies on the Association with WMSDs
  12. Chapter 7: Analysis of Patient-­Handling Tasks in Operating Rooms
  13. Chapter 8: Analysis of Outpatient Services and Day Hospital
  14. Chapter 9: Emergency Department : Setting Up Preventive Strategies for Manual Patient Handling
  15. Chapter 10: Procedures and Tools for Choosing Adequate Equipment
  16. Chapter 11: Definition and Management of Preventive Planning
  17. Chapter 12: Examples of Manual Patient-­Handling Risk Assessment in Various Wards
  18. References
  19. Back Cover