February 4, 2009
Pending changes in a regulation governing trainee doctors working hours in Europe expose the gap in attitudes across the Atlantic to the patient safety issue of doctor fatigue.
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February 2, 2009
A pilot study in Britain reports that junior doctors working shorter hours make some 33 percent fewer mistakes. There's an echo of the results of a 2005 United States study, which suggests fatigued doctors might as well be drunk.
February 2, 2009
Back safety expert Bill Marras, Ph.D, CPE, and director of the Biodynamics Laboratory at The Ohio State University, will deliver the keynote speech -- conference topics to include patient handling, obese patient care, patients' perspective on patient handling, and much more.
February 2, 2009
A group of Michigan senators, led by Alan Sanborn (R-Richmond), hope to fast-track a bill they've introduced that would prohibit the state from establishing a rule for workplace ergonomics.
January 27, 2009
A University of Washington study challenges several long-held causation assumptions associated with work-related low back disability and finds workplace factors play a significant role.
January 25, 2009
Hybrid cars, hailed as good news for our planet, could be bad news for pedestrians and bicyclists. Researchers recommend adding automotive engine noise to make these quiet vehicles safer.
January 21, 2009
Barack Obama and his new administration has committed to the quest for an interoperable e-health record system for the nation. The expression,
January 18, 2009
This battle is heating up. Despite efforts to derail it, the long-running effort in Michigan to introduce an ergonomics standard is back on track after receiving unanimous support from key regulatory commissions in Michigan.
January 14, 2009
It's all in your head. A physiological mechanism was found that could explain the relationship between psychosocial risk factors and musculoskeletal pain.