title: [The adoption of electrical beds in hospital clinic units: evaluation of the impact on workers' low back pathologies].
abstract: With the aim of reducing the number of occupational accidents and of judgements of limited work ability among the nurses having as work task the movement of not self-sufficient patients, the Legnano Hospital has defined a project of substitution of the traditional hospital beds with electrical beds. We describe the project of substitution of the beds and the positive results both on the health status of the workers using electrical beds and on the reduction of the falls occurred to the patients.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Prevenzione, Università di Milano Bicocca. marcodorso@cam-monza.com
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: D'Orso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zoppini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dell'Acqua
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Toso
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Cesana
mesh_terms: D001513:Beds; D004867:Equipment Design; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006282:Health Personnel; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*