title: Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Interventions to reduce patient-handling injuries in the hospital setting are often evaluated based on their effect on outcomes such as injury rates. Measuring intervention adoption could address how and why observed trends in the outcome occurred.
  
  
  METHODS
  Unit-level data related to adoption of patient lift equipment were systematically collected at several points in time over 5 years on nursing units at two hospitals, including hours of lift equipment use, equipment accessibility, and supply purchases and availability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Various measures of adoption highlighted the adoption process' gradual nature and variability by hospital and between units. No single measure adequately assessed adoption. Certain measures appear well-correlated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Future evaluation of primary preventive efforts designed to prevent patient-handling injuries would be strengthened by objective data on intermediate measures that reflect intervention implementation and adoption.
authors: Department of Community and Family Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA. ashley.schoenfisch@duke.edu
authors: Ashley L
authors: AL
authors: Schoenfisch
authors: Lisa A
authors: LA
authors: Pompeii
authors: Douglas J
authors: DJ
authors: Myers
authors: Tamara
authors: T
authors: James
authors: Yeu-Li
authors: YL
authors: Yeung
authors: Ethan
authors: E
authors: Fricklas
authors: Marissa
authors: M
authors: Pentico
authors: Hester J
authors: HJ
authors: Lipscomb
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D055805:Moving and Lifting Patients / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D016272:Occupational Health; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace