Safe patient handling

The overall goal with the research project Patient And Workers Safety Study(PAWSS), is to promote a safe healthcare environment for both healthcare workers and patients.

Our main focus now is to develop a strategy including education, guideline, risk assessment and interventions promoting safe patient manual handling in healthcare. The strategy will be implemented and evaluated in hospital wards and nursing homes in southeast Sweden.

Different studies of the project

For several years our research team has conducted research with focus on health care workers incidents, injuries and situations at the workplace were they occurred. We have also studied patient injuries with a special interest of falls.

Take part of our publications:

Patient and healthcare worker safety risks and injuries. Learning from incident reportingLänk till annan webbplats. External link.

Health care workers' experiences of workplace incidents that posed a risk of patient and worker injury: a critical incident technique analysisLänk till annan webbplats. External link.

A systematic review of work interventions to promote safe patient handling and movement in the healthcare sector.Länk till annan webbplats. External link.

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the risk assessment instrument TilThermometer for a Swedish version – patient handling in the healthcare sector External link.

The Swedish Reserach team

Charlotte Wåhlin, Associate professor, PhD, Ergonomist/RPT, Region Östergötland and Linköping University

Sebastian Buck, PhD-student, RPT, Region Östergötland

Emma Nilsing Strid, Associate professor, PhD/RPT, Region Örebro län and Örebro University

Jan Sandqvist, Associate professor, University lecture, PhD/OT, Linköping University, Linköping

Paul Enthoven, Associate professor, University lecture, RPT

Maria Andreassen, PhDResearcher/OT, Linköping University and the Municipality of Linköping

Jenni Fock, Registered Nurse, change management in health care, Region Östergötland

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Centre, Region Östergötland

For more information about the research project PAWSS you are welcome to contact:

PI Charlotte Wåhlin, Associate professor, Ergonomist/RPT.
charlotte.wahlin@regionostergotland.se
Charlotte Wåhlins ORCID: 0000-0001-7847-7528 External link.