Ergonomic risk factors and risk exposure level of nursing tasks: association with work-related musculoskeletal disorders in nurses.
To identify the risk exposure level of nursing tasks and explore the association with ergonomic factors such as biomechanical, organisational, psychosocial, and environmental job factors. Also, the association among the risk exposure level of nursing tasks among nurses with the prevalence of work-re...
| Published in: | European Journal of Physiotherapy Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 248 - 254 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2021
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