Safe patient handling legislation and changes in programs, practices, perceptions, and experience of musculoskeletal disorders by hospital characteristics: A repeated cross-sectional survey study.

摘要: Abstract Background Safe patient handling legislation has been enacted in 11 states the United States to protect healthcare workers from handing injuries. Implementations and outcomes may vary across hospitals by characteristics of institution. Objectives This study was investigate changes safe programs hospitals, nurses’ perceptions, work practices, musculoskeletal symptoms hospital after passage California's legislation. Design Repeated cross-sectional surveys. Settings Two statewide surveys registered nurses were conducted California, where a law became effective 2012. Random samples selected lists California Board Registered Nurses (2000 2013 3000 2016). Participants Among survey respondents (26% 20% 2016), sample included 254 281 2016, who met eligibility for this study: employed had direct care or duties. Methods Data collected postal on-line compared size, geographic area, teaching status, ownership (for-profit, non-profit, government). Results Between reports showed improvements policies different hospitals. In large, teaching, rural reported slightly better scores program variables than their counterparts; however, use mechanical lifting devices experiences injury not significantly characteristics. Overall, consistently greater non-teaching both hospital-level (safe organizational practices) individual-level (perceptions symptoms) variables. Conclusions Our findings indicate overall Positive appear be among However, positive shown certain necessarily linked more practices