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A Comprehensive Framework for Ergonomic Evaluation of Patient Handling Jobs in Healthcare Systems

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Healthcare Systems Management: Methodologies and Applications

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In recent times, it is essential, for any products or systems, to apply ergonomic principles in their human–machine interactions for enhancement of system performance with negligible or very less negative effect of human work on human health. The workers in hospitals, loading and unloading the stretchers with patients into an ambulance, may face a number of health-related problems like musculoskeletal disorders, back injuries, etc. For eliminating these types of problems, researchers and practitioners have proposed several approaches addressed by the difficulties and health disorder faced by the workers to study on ergonomic improvement of patient transfer to the ambulance and other places. We need to critically appraise these approaches. In this paper, the details of these approaches being recommended for healthcare service delivery system have been discussed and critically appraised.

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    Sanjeet Kumar & Pradip Kumar Ray

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Kumar, S., Ray, P.K. (2018). A Comprehensive Framework for Ergonomic Evaluation of Patient Handling Jobs in Healthcare Systems. In: Ray, P., Maiti, J. (eds) Healthcare Systems Management: Methodologies and Applications. Managing the Asian Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5631-4_8

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