Hospitals that implement safe patient handling and moving policies may find these practices associated with fewer injuries among health care workers, a small study suggests. Researchers analyzed data ...

Creating a safe patient handling program can help reduce injuries and time lost due to injury. Working in healthcare poses many safety concerns, including exposure to illness, physical injury, and ...

While many hospitals and healthcare organizations have established safe patient handling programs, unfortunately they are not all effective. (monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images) When thinking of ...

The health care industry employs more than 18 million workers in the US, and patient care-related injuries, especially those related to moving patients, are a common cause of work disability in this ...

Loss aversion is the concept that losses are more psychologically impactful than gains. This is the most important idea in behavioral decision-making (1,2,3) and plays a huge role in healthcare. Loss ...

Direct Healthcare Group, which is backed by ArchiMed, has acquired Stockholm-based Handicare’s Patient Handling division. No financial terms were disclosed. The unit is a specialist provider of ...