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October 31, 2023 - Study
Remote patient monitoring improves patient falls and reduces harm. … Inpatient falls are a persistent patient safety concern. … a 13-hospital health care system to examine whether remote patient monitoring can reduce inpatient falls … Study
Remote patient monitoring improves patient falls and reduces harm. … Inpatient falls are a persistent patient safety concern.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-external-inspections-safety-acute-hospitals-national-health-service-england-controlled
January 12, 2022 - enhanced accreditation procedures in the United Kingdom did not improve rates of either pressure ulcers or falls … single room hospital accommodation associated with differences in healthcare-associated infection, falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/approaches-improving-patient-safety-integrated-care-scoping-review
May 18, 2022 - Most of the studies focused on decreasing risk of falls and/or medication errors, mostly in the home … The authors recommend future research focus on safety targets beyond falls and medication safety and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/creating-highly-reliable-health-care-how-reliability-enhancing-work-practices-affect-patient
January 12, 2022 - employees mechanisms to recommend organizational change, is associated with fewer medication errors and falls … October 21, 2010
Talking about falls: a qualitative exploration of spoken communication
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September 08, 2021 - survey found that supervisor commitment to safety was associated with lower rates of major injuries from falls … and that environmental safety was associated with lower rates of pressure ulcers, major injuries from falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fable-reality-parkland-hospital-impact-evidence-based-design-strategies-patient-safety
September 09, 2020 - to nature, etc.) improved patient satisfaction but did not impact patient outcomes such as length, falls … May 31, 2023
Patient Safety Innovations
Preventing Falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/health-outcomes-deprescribing-interventions-among-older-residents-nursing-homes-systematic
March 01, 2023 - medications were reviewed according to prespecified criteria resulted in reduced mortality and fewer falls … WebM&M Cases
Failure to Ensure Patient Safety Leads to Patient Falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/balancing-safety-comfort-and-fall-risk-intervention-limit-opioid-and-benzodiazepine
November 09, 2022 - Opioid use by older adults increases the risk of falls. … May 15, 2024
Patient Safety Innovations
Preventing Falls
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May 18, 2022 - Falls in hospitalized older adults represent a source of serious preventable patient harm . … Investigators examined 328 falls and found that more than 60% of the older patients who fell had received
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/identifying-no-harm-incidents-home-healthcare-cohort-study-using-trigger-tool-methodology
January 25, 2023 - The most common incidents identified by the trigger tool were falls without injury, medication management … Home Care
Quality and Safety Professionals
Home Nursing
Administration Errors
Patient Falls
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January 01, 2024 - PFAC Fall Forum 2024
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Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety
Event Description: Join the Betsy…
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July 08, 2009 - care facilities are particularly vulnerable to patient safety problems such as
medication errors and falls … incidence-adverse-drug-events-two-large-academic-long-term-care-facilities
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/interventions-preventing-falls-acute-and-chronic-care-hospitals-systematic-review-and-meta
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41298/psn-pdf
November 27, 2012 - a structure (safety culture), a process (use of physical restraints), and an
outcome (incidence of falls … statistically significant association between higher
safety culture scores, lower use of restraints, and fewer falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/no-safety-no-quality-synthesis-research-hospital-and-patient-safety-1996-2007
January 04, 2010 - the Same Author(s)
Relationship between call light use and response time and inpatient falls … January 4, 2010
Innovation in patient safety: a new task design in reducing patient falls … June 25, 2014
Applying root cause analysis to improve patient safety: decreasing falls
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June 15, 2016 - March 20, 2019
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November 10, 2021 - These strategies primarily target reductions in suicide, self-harm, violence, and falls. … Health Care (Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology)
Psychological and Social Complications
Patient Falls
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December 19, 2018 - Resources
Perspective
The Ongoing Journey to Prevent Patient Falls … In Conversation with Patricia Dykes about The Ongoing Journey to Prevent Patient Falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/making-hospitals-accountable
December 09, 2020 - March 20, 2013
Minnesota Hospital Association Statewide Project: SAFE from FALLS. … September 20, 2011
Medicare nonpayment, hospital falls, and unintended consequences.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accuracy-pressure-ulcer-events-us-nursing-home-ratings
February 05, 2020 - Similar to earlier research on self-reported falls data, correlations between the self-reported and … Resources From the Same Author(s)
Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-unit-based-patient-safety-officer
September 19, 2012 - implemented on a surgical unit at an academic medical center that had a persistently high rate of falls … Health Care Executives and Administrators
General Internal Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Patient Falls