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Clinical trialNCT00012844CompletedInterventional

Redesigning Patient Handling Tasks to Prevent Nursing Back Injuries

SponsorUS Department of Veterans AffairsEnrollment134Back PainOccupational Diseases
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

This study is one of several initiated by the investigators to reduce musculoskeletal injuries in patient care providers. Nurses have one of the highest incidences of work related back injuries of any profession. Over the past 20 years, efforts to reduce work-related injuries in nursing have been largely unsuccessful.

Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

  • Audrey L. Nelson, RN PhD FAAN

    James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL

    Principal Investigator

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Fl

    Tampa, Florida, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
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Primary completion
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Completion
31 Dec 1999
Last update posted
7 Apr 2015
Registered enrollment
134
Registry id
NCT00012844

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.