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It is widely accepted that the physical environment—including environmental features, … Hendrich and colleagues (20) found that most falls occurred when
patients attempted to get out of bed … rooms to decentralized units with single-patient rooms that included a
family zone, the number of falls … The impact of healthcare environmental design on patient falls.
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October 12, 2011 - of a staff-driven reporting program to collect data on indicators such as medication errors, patient falls … May 14, 2014
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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
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March 18, 2020 - connect and exchange data with other devices, such as RFID technology) is effective at reducing patient falls … February 10, 2021
Effects of an intervention to increase bed alarm use to prevent falls
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September 16, 2020 - The study looked at four nursing-sensitive adverse outcomes: pressure ulcers, falls with injuries, catheter-associated … Rural hospitals had significantly fewer of these hospital-acquired conditions, except for patient falls
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Influence of unit-level staffing on medication errors and falls in military
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October 27, 2010 - one hospital's effort to decrease readmissions and adverse events involving inpatients at risk for falls … The Topic
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office-based care settings, such as falls, diagnostic issues, and complications related … events in ambulatory care fall into four
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August 03, 2022 - Among the individual PSIs, only in-hospital falls with hip fractures were significantly higher during … April 24, 2018
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December 21, 2022 - Triggers were related to diagnoses (e.g., falls, bleeding, thromboembolic events), laboratory values … November 2, 2022
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December 29, 2014 - systematic-review
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January 23, 2019 - United Kingdom, the NHS Safety Thermometer, which
measured incidence of pressure ulcers, harm from falls … preventing-facility-pressure-ulcers-patient-safety-strategy-systematic-review
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May 29, 2024 - placement, pivoting, balance correction, and fall recovery more difficult.( 5 ) Though relatively uncommon, falls … A number of interventions have been shown to reduce falls in the perianesthesia setting. … Advanced age, obesity and continuous femoral nerve blockade are independent risk factors for inpatient falls … Falls associated with lower-extremity-nerve blocks: a pilot investigation of mechanisms. … Decreasing falls in the postoperative orthopedic patient with a femoral nerve block.