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 handling and movement in healthcare. The strategy was implemented and evaluated in hospital wards and nursing homes in southeast Sweden during 2023 to 2024.

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.