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Work-related musculoskeletal disorders: the epidemiologic evidence and the debate
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The available epidemiologic evidence is substantial, but will benefit from more longitudinal data to better evaluate gaps in knowledge concerning latency of effect, natural history, prognosis, and potential for selection bias in the form of the healthy worker effect.Citations
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Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses
TL;DR: The purpose of this book is to provide nurses with the best available research, thereby enabling better decisions that result in improved health care and safety practices and lead to better outcomes.
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Estimating the global burden of low back pain attributable to combined occupational exposures.
Laura Punnett,Annette Prüss-Utün,Deborah Imel Nelson,Deborah Imel Nelson,Marilyn Fingerhut,Marilyn Fingerhut,James Leigh,SangWoo Tak,SangWoo Tak,Sharonne Phillips +9 more
TL;DR: Occupational exposures to ergonomic stressors represent a substantial source of preventable back pain and specific research on children is needed to quantify the global burden of disease due to child labor.
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Economic impact of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) on work in Europe
TL;DR: Examination of the available evidence on the economic burden of MSDs on work across Europe highlights areas of policy, clinical and employment practice which might improve work outcomes for individuals and families and reduce the economic and social costs of MSD.
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Work related neck–shoulder pain: a review on magnitude, risk factors, biochemical characteristics, clinical picture and preventive interventions
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Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Nurses in Ibadan, South-west Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey
TL;DR: A high proportion of Nigerian nurses reported WMSDs at some body site in their occupational lives with the low back being injured most often, and education programmes on prevention and coping strategies for musculoskeletal disorders are recommended for nurses.
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Occupational and environmental medicine. Meeting the growing need for clinical services
Rosenstock L,Rest Km,John A. Benson,Cannella Jm,Cohen J,Mark R. Cullen,Davidoff F,Philip J. Landrigan,Reynolds Rc,Clever Lh +9 more
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Occupational factors and carpal tunnel syndrome
TL;DR: High repetitiveness appears to be a greater risk factor than high force, and the odds ratio for the high force-high repetitive jobs was more than 15 (p less than .001) compared to the low force-low repetitive jobs.
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A Conceptual Model for work-related Neck and upper-limb Musculoskeletal Disorders
Thomas J. Armstrong,Peter Buckle,Lawrence J. Fine,Mats Hagberg,Bengt Jonsson,Asa Kilbom,Ilkka Kuorinka,Barbara A. Silverstein,Gisela Sjøgaard,E Viikari-Juntura +9 more
TL;DR: A conceptual model for the pathogenesis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders that contains sets of cascading exposure, dose, capacity, and response variables, such that response at one level can act as dose at the next.
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Hand wrist cumulative trauma disorders in industry.
TL;DR: Significant positive associations were observed between hand wrist CTDs and high force-high repetitive jobs and these associations were independent of age, sex, years on the specific job, and plant.
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Back disorders and nonneutral trunk postures of automobile assembly workers.
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