Health Care Worker Incidents Reported in a Rural Health Care Facility
Health Care Worker Incidents Reported in a Rural Health Care Facility
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农村卫生保健机构报告的卫生保健人员事故
作者：
Mary Linnea Nelson;Debra Kay Olson
大约有800万工人，或美国总劳动力的6.4%，受雇于医疗保健行业。受伤的频率从1980年的每100名全职工人中6人上升到1992年的10人以上（美国劳工部，1994年）。这项描述性的回顾性研究的特点主机，代理商和环境变量的120起事件，1990年在农村疗养院和急性护理医院与290名员工。事故定义为导致伤害或有可能导致伤害的事件。根据9个月时计算的全职当量（190.4 FTE）估计值，该机构每100 FTE的事件率为63。报告了114起事故中的受伤情况，导致每100个FTE的总体受伤率为59.9。扭伤和拉伤是最常报告的损伤性质，其次是割伤、裂伤和穿刺。男女工人报告的事件比例相似。年中，85%的员工是女性，15%是男性。女性占报告事件受试者的83.3%;男性占16.7%。这些数据从一个小的农村设施不同的医疗保健工作者在文献中报道的伤害经验的许多调查结果。
About eight million workers, or 6.4% of the total United States work force, are employed by the health care industry. Frequency of injury has continued to rise from 6 per 100 full time workers in 1980 to over 10 in 1992 (US Department of Labor, 1994). This descriptive, retrospective study characterizes host, agent, and environmental variables for 120 incidents reported in 1990 at a rural nursing home and acute care hospital with 290 employees. Incident is defined as an event that results in injury or has the potential to result in an injury. Based on an estimate of full time equivalents (190.4 FTE) calculated at 9 months, the incident rate per 100 FTEs was 63 for this facility. Injury was reported in 114 incidents, resulting in an overall injury rate per 100 FTEs of 59.9. Sprains and strains were the most frequently reported nature of injury followed by cuts, lacerations, and punctures. Female and male workers reported similar proportions of incidents. At midyear, 85% of the employee population was female, 15% male. Females represented 83.3% of the subjects reporting incidents; males represented 16.7%. These data from a small rural facility differ from many of the findings on the injury experience of health care workers reported in the literature.