Publications

Our publications are listed below. Select publication listings have links to reader-friendly summaries that provide an overview of the topic, findings, and guidance to put the findings into practice. Links to external sources may change. Please let us know if you discover a link that is not working.

• Sama, S. R., Quinn, M. M., Gore, R. J., Galligan, C. J., Kriebel, D., Markkanen, P. K., Lindberg, J. E., & Fallon, P. J. (2024). The Safe Home Care Intervention Study: Implementation Methods and Effectiveness Evaluation. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648241246472. Available open access.
  
  
• Markkanen P.K., Gore R.J., Sama S.R., Lindberg J.E., Galligan C.J., Quinn M.M. (2024) Coaching Home Care Clients to Prepare Their Homes for Safe Care Visits: A Mixed-Methods Study to Evaluate a Nurse-Led Educational Intervention Process. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.  21(3):360. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21030360. Available open access.
  
  
• Brouillette, N. M., Markkanen, P. K., Quinn, M. M., Galligan, C. J., Sama, S. R., Lindberg, J. E., & Karlsson, N. D. (2022). Aide and Client Safety “Should Go Hand-In-Hand”: Qualitative Findings From Home Care Aides, Clients, and Agency Leaders. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 0(0). Available open access.
  
  
• Baron S.L., Tsui E.K., Quinn M.M. (2022). Work as a Root Cause of Home Health Workers' Poor Health. American Journal of Public Health, 112, 9_11, DOI: 10.2105 / AJPH. 2021.306582. Available open access.
  
  
• Markkanen P.K., Brouillette N.M., Quinn M.M., Galligan C.J., Sama S.S., Lindberg J.E., Karlsson N.D. (2021). “It changed everything”: The Safe Home Care qualitative study of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on home care aides, clients, and managers. BMC Health Services Research 21, 1055. Available open access.
  
  
• Lindberg J.E., Quinn, M.M., Gore R.J., Galligan C.J., Sama S.R., Sheikh N.N., Markkanen P.K., Parker-Vega A., Karlsson N.D., LeBouf R.F., Virji M.A. (2021). Assessment of home care aides’ respiratory exposure to total volatile organic compounds and chlorine during simulated bathroom cleaning: An experimental design with conventional and “green” products. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2021.1910280. Available open access.
  
  
• Quinn M.M., Markkanen P.K., Galligan C.J., Sama S.R., Lindberg J.E., Edwards M.F. (2021). Healthy Aging Requires a Healthy Home Care Workforce: the Occupational Safety and Health of Home Care Aides. Current Environmental Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-021-00315-7. Available open access.
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Home Health and Home Care in Massachusetts (2020) UMass Lowell Safe Home Care Project and Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety. ©2020 Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, 501 Boylston Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02116
  
  
• Sama S.R., Quinn M.M., Galligan C.J., Karlsson N.D., Gore R.J., Kriebel D., Prentice J.C., Osei-Poku G., Carter C.N., Markkanen P.K., Lindberg J.L. (2020). Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on home health and home care agency managers, client and aides: a cross-sectional survey, March to June 2020. Home Health Care Management & Practice 2021, Vol. 33(2) 125–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/1084822320980415.
  
  
• Karlsson N., Markkanen P., Kriebel D., Galligan C., & Quinn M. (2019). "That's not my job": A mixed methods study of challenging client behaviors, boundaries, and home care aide occupational safety and health. American journal of industrial medicine; 1-11. DOI:10.1002/ajim.23082. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Karlsson N., Markkanen P., Kriebel D., Gore R., Galligan C., Sama S., & Quinn M. (2019). Home care aides' experiences of verbal abuse: a survey of characteristics and risk factors. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine;76(7), 448-454. DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2018-105604. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Markkanen P, Quinn M, Goodyear N, et al (2018). Cleaning and disinfection in home healthcare: integrating qualitative and quantitative methods to assess caregivers’ exposure to cleaning and disinfection products. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine;75:A348.
  
  
• Quinn, M (2018). Healthy ageing, healthy work - a global perspective on the home care workforce. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine;75:A9-A10.
  
  
• Sun, C., Buchholz, B., Quinn, M., Punnett, L., Galligan, C., & Gore, R. (2017). Ergonomic evaluation of slide boards used by home care aides to assist client transfers. Ergonomics. DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2017.1420826. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Goodyear, N., Markkanen, P., Beato-Melendez, C., Mohamed, H., Gore, R., Galligan, C., Sama, S., & Quinn, M. (2017). Cleaning and disinfection in home care: A comparison of 2 commercial products with potentially different consequences for respiratory health. American journal of infection control. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.09.033. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Brouillette, N. M., Quinn, M. M., & Kriebel, D. (2017). Risk of Sharps Injuries to Home Care Nurses and Aides: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 59(11), 1072. DOI: 0.1097/JOM.0000000000001160. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Markkanen P, Galligan C, Quinn M. (2017). Safety Risks Among Home Infusion Nurses and Other Home Health Care Providers. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 40(4), 215. DOI: 10.1097/NAN.0000000000000227. Available open access.
  
  
• Brouillette N, Quinn M, Kriebel D, Markkanen P, Galligan C, Sama S, Gore R, Laramie A, Davis L. (2017). Risk of sharps injuries among home care aides: Results of the Safe Home Care survey. American Journal of Infection Control, 45(4), 377-383. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.11.018. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Quinn M , Markkanen P, Galligan C, Sama S, Kriebel D, Gore R, Brouillette N, Okyere D, Sun C,Punnett L, Laramie A, Davis L. (2016) Occupational health of home care aides: results of the safe home care survey. Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 73:237-245. DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2015-103031. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Goodyear N, Brouillette N, Tenaglia K, Gore R, Marshall J. The effectiveness of three home products in cleaning and disinfection of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli on home environmental surfaces. J Appl Microbiol. 2015; 119(5):1245-52. doi:10.1111/jam.12935. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Markkanen P, Galligan C, Laramie A, Fisher J, Sama S, Quinn M. (2015) Understanding sharps injuries in home healthcare: The Safe Home Care qualitative methods study to identify pathways for injury prevention. BioMed Central Public Health. 15:359, 2015. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1673-x. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Galligan C, Markkanen P, Fantasia L, Gore R, Sama S, Quinn M. (2015) A growing fire hazard in communities: Home oxygen therapy and continued smoking habits. New Solutions, Vol 24(4): 535-554, 2015. DOI: 10.2190/NS. 24.4.g. Available open access. Reader-friendly summary (pdf)
  
  
• Quinn M, Henneberger P, and members of the NIOSH-NORA (2015) Cleaning and Disinfecting in Healthcare Working Group. Cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces in health care: Toward an integrated framework for infection and occupational illness prevention. American Journal of Infection Control, Vol 43(5): 424-434, 2015. DOI:10.1016/j.ajic.2015.01.029. Available open access.
  
  
• Markkanen P, Quinn M, Sama S. (2015) When the Home is a Workplace: Promoting Safety and Health for a Vulnerable Workforce . Book chapter in: Armenia A, Duffy M, Stacey C (Eds). Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work. pp. 94-103. Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, NJ. 2015.
  
  
• Markkanen P, Quinn M, Galligan C, Sama S, Brouillette N, Okyere D. (2014) Characterizing the Nature of Home Care Work and Occupational Hazards: A Developmental Intervention Study. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. Vol 57 (4), April 2014, Pages: 445–457. PMID:24347541
  
  
• Bello A, Quinn M, Milton D, Perry M. (2013). Determinants of 2-butoxyethonal exposures from cleaning tasks: a quasi- experimental study, Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Jan 2013 57(1):125-35. doi:10.1093/annhyg/mes054. Epub 2012 Sep 20. PMID: 22997411
  
  
• Markkanen P, Abdallah LM, Lee JA, Gautam R. (2012). Long-term care in the United States and Finland: Policy lessons to be learned (2012). J Gerontol Nurs. Vol 38(12):16-21. PMID: 23189994
  
  
• Galligan C, Chalupka S, Laramie A, Davis L. (2011). Procedure Kits & Trays: A call to action for sharps safety. Nursing Management. March 2011.doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000343436.10849.53
  
  
• Kim H, Kriebel D, Quinn M, Davis L. (2010). The Snowman: a model of injuries and near-misses for the prevention of sharps injuries. Am J Ind Med. Vol 53(11) 1119-1127. PMID: 20568269
  
  
• Galligan C, Chalupka S, Laramie A, Davis L. (2010). Do your procedure trays meet sharps safety standards? OR Nurse. November, Vol. 4(6), pp.11-14. DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000343436.10849.53
  
  
• Bello A, QuinnM, Milton D, Perry M. (2010) Quantitative assessment of airborne exposures generated during common cleaning tasks: a pilot study, Environmental Health 9:76. DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-76. Available open access.
  
  
• Kim H. Kriebel D. (2009). Regression models for public health surveillance data: a simulation study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, November, Vol. 66(11), pp. 733-739. PMID:19687020
  
  
• Bello A, QuinnM, Perry M, Milton D. (2009) Characterization of occupational exposures to cleaning products used for common cleaning tasks–a pilot study of hospital cleaners. Environmental Health, 8:11- 27. DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-8-11 Available open access.
  
  
• Quinn M, Markkanen P, Galligan C, Kriebel D, Chalupka S, Kim H, Gore R, Sama S, Laramie A, Davis L. (2009). Sharps injuries and other blood and body fluid exposures among home healthcare nurses and aides. American Journal of Public Health, November, Vol. 99(S3), pp. S710-S717. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.150169.PMID:19890177
  
  
• Galligan C, Chalupka S, Laramie A, Davis L. (2009). Procedure Kits & Trays: A call to action for sharps safety. Nursing. January, Vol. 39(1), pp.13-15. doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000343436.10849.53
  
  
• Markkanen P, Chalupka S, Galligan C, Sama S, Gore R, Kim H, Bello A, Kriebel D, Quinn M. (2008). Studying home health care nurses and aides: research design and challenges. Journal of Research in Nursing, November, Vol. 13(6), pp. 480-495. DOI: 10.1177/1744987108092055
  
  
• Chalupka S, Markkanen P, Galligan C, Quinn M. (2008). Needlestick and Sharps Injury Prevention: Are We Reaching Our Goals? AAACN Viewpoint, March/April.
  
  
• Chalupka S, Markkanen P, Galligan C, Quinn M. (2008). Sharps injuries and bloodborne pathogen exposures in home healthcare. AAOHN Journal, January, Vol. 56(1), pp. 15-29. PMID: 18293597
  
  
• Markkanen P, Quinn M, Galligan C, Chalupka S, Davis L, Laramie A. (2007). There’s no place like home: A qualitative study of the working conditions of home healthcare providers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, March, Vol. 49(3), pp.327-337. PMID: 17351519
  
  
• Quinn MM, Fuller TP, Bello A, Galligan CJ. (2006) Pollution prevention--occupational safety and health in hospitals: alternatives and interventions. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2006 Apr;3(4):182-93. PMID: 1653129