Differential effectiveness of the Minnesota Safe Patient Handling Act by health care setting: An exploratory study.

Background: The Minnesota Safe Patient Handling (MN SPH) Act requires health care facilities to implement comprehensive programs to protect their workers from musculoskeletal injuries caused by lifting and transferring patients. Nursing homes, hospitals, and outpatient facilities each face unique challenges implementing and maintaining SPH programs. The objective of the study was to compare patient handling injuries in these three health care settings and determine whether change in injury rate over time differed by setting following enactment of the law.

Evaluation of the Minnesota Safe Patient Handling Act: trends in workers' compensation indemnity claims in nursing home workers before and after enactment of the law.

Objectives: The 2007 Minnesota Safe Patient Handling Act aims to protect healthcare workers from injuries caused by lifting and transferring patients. The effectiveness of the law in nursing homes is unknown. This policy evaluation measured changes in patient handling injuries before and after the law was enacted.

Occupational differences in workers' compensation indemnity claims among direct care workers in Minnesota nursing homes, 2005-2016.

Background: Nursing assistants have one of the highest injury rates in the U.S., but few population-based studies assess differential injury risk by occupation in nursing homes.

The need for data harmonization--a response to Boden and Ozonoff.

Boden and Ozonoff's undercount estimates in their recent Commentary rely on three assumptions for which no quantitative literature references are provided. Alternatively, we show that findings in both studies and published data indicate lower upper-bound estimates for the undercount range. Am.

The law and incomplete database information as confounders in epidemiologic research on occupational injuries and illnesses.

Background: Capture-recapture studies report undercounting of work injuries/illnesses with days away from work (DAFW) in the Bureau of Labor Statistics annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (BLS SOII) by 25-68% depending on the state and undercounting by various state workers' compensation (WC) systems of eligible claims by 5-35%.

Methods: Statutory/regulatory criteria defining eligible cases are used to adjust counts in the 1998-2001 Minnesota's WC system and the BLS SOII to permit comparison and to evaluate the recent studies. Missing information in the employer database used in the capture-recapture studies is tabulated.

Methodologic issues in the use of workers' compensation databases for the study of work injuries with days away from work. I. Sensitivity of case ascertainment.

Background: Case ascertainment costs vary substantially between primary and secondary data sources. This review summarizes information on the sensitivity of state administrative databases in workers' compensation systems for the ascertainment of days-away-from-work (DAFW) work injuries for use in modeling studies.

Methods: Review of the literature supplemented by data from governmental or organizational reports or produced for this report.