preventing falls in acute care hospitals:fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial.to the editor: dr dykes and colleagues reported a reduction in both the rate of falls and number of patients who sustained falls while admitted to acute care hospital units after the introduction ...
Prevention of Newborn Falls/Drops in the Hospital: AWHONN Practice Brief Number 9. Aims and objectives. To evaluate a systematic, coordinated approach to limit the severity and minimize the number of falls in an acute care hospital. Obstetric,N Nurses - 《Nursing for Womens Health》 被引量: ...
Preventing in-hospital falls is an important goal in avoiding poor patient outcomes. In this quasi-experimental study, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of a nurse-led fall prevention program in a 300-bed Swiss hospital. Four hundred and nine patients (internal medicine) were included: interv...
For example, one study, examined in the review, found that comprehensive fall prevention programs, including patient education, vision assessments, and walking aids did not reduce the incidence of falls for patients undergoing a typical inpatient hospital stay (median of seven days). Such strategies ...
Hospital falls remain a frequent and debilitating problem worldwide. Most hospital falls prevention strategies have targeted clinician education, environmental modifications, assistive devices, hospital systems and medication reviews. The role that patie
The present study is the first to model the cost effectiveness of an intervention for the prevention of falls in hospitals using both cost and effect data collected from a randomized controlled trial. This study also sought to measure the economic burden of an in-hospital fall and the cost of...
The population of interest was health professionals who had received education related to falls prevention. The concept of interest was staff education on falls prevention, and the context of interest was any hospital or healthcare setting. Healthcare settings were defined as acute or sub-acute hos...
Falls prevention in the acute care setting with a focus on the accurate completion of a falls risk assessment tool: a best practice implementation project 来自 学术范 喜欢 0 阅读量: 33 作者: Petrucci,Pip 摘要: Background : Falls can have an impact on hospital resources including pressure on ...
Accidental falls are very common in older hospital patients -- accounting for 32% of reported adult patient safety incidents in UK National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and occurring with similar frequency in settings internationally. In countries where the population is ageing, and care is provide...
interventions are not enough to reduce falls when tested in hospital systems that do not provide a culture of patient safety. Addressing larger system-wide concerns like improving handoffs and communication or improving knowledge and skills related to fall risk and prevention may be the key to ...