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• Title:Evidence-based patient handling : tasks, equipment, and interventions / Sue Hignett [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hignett, Sue (Susan), 1960-
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W84.1 .E842 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Evidence-based medicine.
  Medical personnel and patient.
  Continuum of care.
  Medical care.
  
• Medical Subjects:Evidence-Based Medicine.
  Patient Care--methods.
  Equipment and Supplies.
  Lifting.
  Wounds and Injuries--prevention & control.
  
• Description:vii, 223 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:"Evidence-based Patient Handling breaks new ground in a fundamental area of day-to-day work in health and social care. It provides a wide range of professionals with a much-needed source of reference, including: nurses, back-care advisors, health-care managers, risk managers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, midwives, ergonomists, occupational health practitioners (including doctors), ambulance services, and health-staff educators."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-183) and index.
  
• ISBN:0415246318 (hbk.)
  0415246326 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Research background and criteria
  1. Introduction and background
  2. Method of systematic review
  Pt. II. Research results
  Sect. I. Controversial techniques and hazardous tasks
  3. Controversial issues
  Sect. II. Patient-handling tasks
  4. Transfers
  5. Caring tasks
  6. Specialist areas
  Sect. III. Equipment
  7. Small aids
  8. Beds
  9. Hoists
  Sect. IV. Interventions
  10. Training interventions
  11. Other interventions
  App. 1. Example of Medline search
  App. 2. Data appraisal/extraction forms
  App. 3. Excluded studies.