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[A multidisciplinary preventive intervention in a large Italian hospital]
S Porru1, Angela Carta, Francesca Parmigiani
1Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro ed Igiene Industriale, Università di Brescia, Brescia. porru@med.unibs.it
Background:
A multidisciplinary intervention is necessary to tackle the occupational risk of low back disorders in manual handling ofpatients and to evaluate the effectiveness.
Methods:
An intervention was carried out which included risk assessment, testing and purchasing of patient handling devices, training programmes, health surveillance and collection of quantitative and qualitative outcomes to evaluate effectiveness, in a before-after design.
Results:
The intervention was effective in reducing exposures, increasing knowledge and skills in patient-handling techniques, decreasing low back pain prevalence and injuries related to patient handling; absenteeism seemed to show a decreasing trend.
Conclusions:
The multidisciplinary approach was useful in the overall management of low back pain in health care workers performing patient handling.
