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Research Paper

Early Mobilization/Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit

Big Data

Caregiver Needs

Clinical Practice

Health Services Research

Measurement

Skin Management

Coding, Tracking and Trending Injury Data to Improve Practice and Safety for Caregivers and Their Patients 1145

Saturday, November 2, 2024
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM  
Location:  ROOM: Metropolitan REGION: Tower Mezzanine Level >>> DIRECTIONS: Exit Tower elevators on Mezzanine level. Proceed straight ahead, past the skylight. Metropolitan is the first room to the left.

Investigating and accurately categorizing employee injury claims are essential for identifying trends and

implementing effective solutions.  This presentation summarizes how improved coding of injuries

for 15 years of workers’ compensation (WC) data was used to improve system-wide injury prevention efforts, in

particular those related to safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) practices across an 11-hospital region.

Accurate coding of caregiver injuries and implementing SPHM solutions based on this data

had a significant impact on accurately identifying risk, implementing injury prevention strategies, and

decreasing frequency and severity of employee injuries related to outdated manual patient handling practices.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how an employee injury coding system led to improved practice at the bedside
  • Explain how effectively communicating and presenting employee injuries, workers'' compensation claims and underlying causes of injuries within your organization can lead to effective injury prevention programs
  • Discuss the link between employee injuries, patient outcomes and safe patient handling and mobility practices
Disclosure(s):
Teresa L. Boynton, MS, OTR, CSPHP: No financial relationships to disclose