Mary Anne Hudson

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  1. ncbi Texas passes first law for safe patient handling in America: landmark legislation protects health-care workers and patients from injury related to manual patient lifting
    Mary Anne Hudson
    Coos County Public Health Department, North Bend, Oregon 97420, USA
    J Long Term Eff Med Implants 15:559-66. 2005
  2. ncbi Prevention of disabling back injuries in nurses by the use of mechanical patient lift systems
    Richard F Edlich
    University of Virginia Health System, USA
    J Long Term Eff Med Implants 14:521-33. 2004
  3. ncbi Devastating injuries in healthcare workers: description of the crisis and legislative solution to the epidemic of back injury from patient lifting
    Richard F Edlich
    Plastic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia Health System, Virginia, USA
    J Long Term Eff Med Implants 15:225-41. 2005

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  1. ncbi Texas passes first law for safe patient handling in America: landmark legislation protects health-care workers and patients from injury related to manual patient lifting
    Mary Anne Hudson
    Coos County Public Health Department, North Bend, Oregon 97420, USA
    J Long Term Eff Med Implants 15:559-66. 2005
    ..Rapid enactment of a federal mandate for Safe Patient Handling No Manual Lift is essential and anticipated...
  2. ncbi Prevention of disabling back injuries in nurses by the use of mechanical patient lift systems
    Richard F Edlich
    University of Virginia Health System, USA
    J Long Term Eff Med Implants 14:521-33. 2004
    ..This type of intervention assumes that lifting is a specialized skill to be performed only by expert professional patient movers who have been thoroughly trained in the latest lifting device techniques...
  3. ncbi Devastating injuries in healthcare workers: description of the crisis and legislative solution to the epidemic of back injury from patient lifting
    Richard F Edlich
    Plastic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia Health System, Virginia, USA
    J Long Term Eff Med Implants 15:225-41. 2005
    ..California and other states are preparing to (re)introduce legislation in January 2005. A national, industry-specific policy is essential to quell the outflow of nursing personnel to disability from manual patient lifting...