1995
Review of Accidents/Injuries Among Emergency Medical Services Workers in Baltimore, Maryland
Gershon R, Vlahov D, Kelen G, Conrad B, Murphy L. Review of Accidents/Injuries Among Emergency Medical Services Workers in Baltimore, Maryland. Prehospital And Disaster Medicine 1995, 10: 14-18. PMID: 10155400, DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x00041583.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency medical service workersMedical service workersEMS workersEmployee health clinicLost work daysMost incidentsHospital visitsAccidents/injuriesHeavier patientsMedical recordsHealth clinicsOccupational exposureBlinded reviewPrevention strategiesBody sitesInjuryUrban fire departmentRespiratory systemWork daysService workersFire departmentsExposureDepartmentBody fluidsSprains
1990
Variation in Risk for Falls by Clinical Department: Implications for Prevention
Rohde J, Myers A, Vlahov D. Variation in Risk for Falls by Clinical Department: Implications for Prevention. Infection Control And Hospital Epidemiology 1990, 11: 521-524. DOI: 10.2307/30151319.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPatient daysFall rateClinical departmentsTotal patient daysInjury prevention programsAcute care hospitalsBed acute care hospitalRate of fallInpatient fallsOncology servicesMedical recordsRetrospective analysisAdult servicesPrevention programsOne-year periodPsychiatry departmentPatientsInjuryAdditional yearIncident reportsDepartmentAgeFallDaysHospitalVariation in risk for falls by clinical department: implications for prevention.
Rohde J, Myers A, Vlahov D. Variation in risk for falls by clinical department: implications for prevention. Infection Control And Hospital Epidemiology 1990, 11: 521-4. PMID: 2230041, DOI: 10.1086/646085.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPatient daysFall rateClinical departmentsTotal patient daysInjury prevention programsAcute care hospitalsBed acute care hospitalRate of fallInpatient fallsOncology servicesMedical recordsRetrospective analysisAdult servicesPrevention programsOne-year periodPsychiatry departmentPatientsInjuryAdditional yearIncident reportsDepartmentAgeFallDaysHospital