title: Safe patient handling in diagnostic imaging.
abstract: Raising awareness of the risk to diagnostic imaging personnel from manually lifting, transferring, and repositioning patients is critical to improving workplace safety and staff utilization. The aging baby boomer generation and growing bariatric population exacerbate the problem. Also, legislative initiatives are increasing nationwide for hospitals to implement safe patient handling programs. A management process designed to improve working conditions through implementing ergonomic programs can reduce losses and improve productivity and patient care outcome measures for imaging departments.
authors.affiliation: Essential Ergonomics, Shoreline, WA, USA. susan.murphey@comcast.net
authors.forename: Susan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Murphey
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology