… Background Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) persist as the leading category of occupational
injury in health care. Limited evidence exists regarding MSIs for occupations other than …

… patient-nurse ratios and musculoskeletal injuries among health care workers (11). Workload
… conditions for health care workers. Focused discussions with health care workers as part of …

… limited evidence of their validity predicting injury in healthy workers. This study indicates that
… musculoskeletal injury risk after 1.3 years of employment, particularly for back injuries from …

… workers off work with musculoskeletal injuries. The aim was to determine which generic
measure of health … in a planned cohort study of prognostic factors in workers with such injuries. …

… musculoskeletal risk factors. The existing data show construction workers to be at signi cant
risk of musculoskeletal injury, … Their risk of musculoskeletal injury is much higher than that of …

… population included healthy, adult workers, who were free of musculoskeletal complaints
during … workers. We considered workers as healthy when they were free of musculoskeletal …

… ‘‘Other Clinical’’ occupations (34% mental health workers) had the highest risk of injury (OR
4.5: 95%CI, 1.7 –12.1) for all injuries. The ERI ratio was a significant predictor for neck and …

… In our study, all direct care health workers who were required to regularly handle patients
were eligible for the study. Other occupations such as housekeeping, maintenance, security, …

… selected office workers participated. Nordic musculoskeletal disorders questionnaire was …
MSDs were less than other healthy workers indicating inappropriate ergonomics conditions. …

… health status and work limitations in injured workers with musculoskeletal disorders at 1 month
post-injury… For example, in a study among 205 workers with MSK injury, Evanoff et al. [14] …