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Today 80% of employees in the healthcare system are women. Limited research concerning their physical activity at work is available. The purpose of the study was the investigation of body composition, maximum physical capacity and quantification of physical work activity for female healthcare workers under real-time conditions.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Occupational physical activity (PA) of 33 female healthcare workers in a university hospital was quantified. Health associate professionals (HAP), health professionals (HP), and females working from cleaners and helpers (CH) department participated. All underwent cardio pulmonary exercise test. For every working task VO2, VCO2 and RER were measured and EE was calculated individually for each task.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Forty-two different working tasks were identified and grouped in seven categories to compare physical activity (PA): \u2018office and laboratory work\u2019, \u2018bedside patient care\u2019, \u2018instrument reprocessing, packing boxes\u2019, \u2018walking with patient, or alone\u2019, \u2018pushing carts or wheelchairs\u2019, \u2018strenuous cleaning in bent posture\u2019 and \u2018lifting heavy boxes, weights or items\u2019. By comparing groups of healthcare workers, CH and HAP spent significant (p &amp;lt; 0.01) more EE (in kcal\/min) 3.9 resp. 3.2 than HP 2.5. Light PA e.g. office and laboratory work (2.7 \u00b1 0.6) and bedside patient care (2.9 \u00b1 0.7) were accomplished by HP and HAP while HAP and CH performed moderate PA such as \u2018packing boxes\u2019 (3.6 \u00b1 0.8), \u2018pushing carts\u2019 and \u2018strenuous cleaning\u2019 (4.7 \u00b1 0.9). Work performed by CH and HAP, i.e. \u2018strenuous cleaning\u2019 and \u2018lifting heavy items\u2019 showed highest kcal per kg Fat Free Mass (FFM) per hour with 5.80 [4.05\u20137.81] and 6.94 [5.18\u20139.03] kcal\/kgFFM\/h.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Our findings lend preliminary support to the hypothesis that the majority of activities in female healthcare workers were of low and moderate PA and can be accomplished by middle aged and even older female workers. CH performed tasks with heavy physical activities (PA) like cleaning and lifting heavy weights. 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