Devastating injuries in healthcare workers: description of the crisis and legislative solution to the epidemic of back injury from patient lifting.

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Published in J Long Term Eff Med Implants on January 01, 2005

Authors

Richard F Edlich1, Mary Anne Hudson, Ralph M Buschbacher, Kathryne L Winters, L D Britt, Mary Jude Cox, Daniel G Becker, Joseph K McLaughlin, K Dean Gubler, Thomas S P Zomerschoe, Mary F Latimer, Robert D Zura, Nona S Paulsen, William B Long, Barbara M Brodie, Susan Berenson, Scott E Langenburg, Lise Borel, Danielle B Jenson, Dillon E Chang, W Randolph Chitwood, Thomas H Roberts, Mara J Martin, Anna Miller, Charles L Werner, Peyton T Taylor, Jeanette Lancaster, Marina S Kurian, Jerry L Falwell, Reverend Jerry Falwell

Author Affiliations

1: Plastic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia Health System,Virginia, USA. redlich9@comcast.net

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