According to researcher Janice Morse, approximately 14% of all falls in hospitals are accidental, another 8% are unanticipated and 78% are anticipated falls. Guideline to prevent falls in the hospital has helped to bring down the numbers and improve patient safety....
Falls are one of the most frequently occurring adverse events that impact upon the recovery of older hospital inpatients. Falls can threaten both immediate and longer-term health and independence. There is need to identify cost-effective means for preven
Prevention of Newborn Falls/ Drops in the Hospital: AWHONN Practice Brief Number 9 A newborn fall is a sudden, unintentional descent, with or without injury to the patient that results in the patient coming to rest on the floor, on or against another surface, on another person or object....
There is emerging evidence that hospital falls prevention interventions that incorporate patient education can reduce falls and associated injuries such as bruising, lacerations or fractures. The design, mode of delivery and quality of educational design influence outcomes. Well-designed education programs ...
Falls in hospitals remain frequent and continue to cause patient physical and psychological harm and health professional distress [1,2,3]. The ongoing economic burden of hospital falls on health systems internationally is also evident [4, 5]. Hospital falls are more common in older patients and ...
p pBackground/p pPatient falls in hospitals are common and may lead to negative outcomes such as injuries, prolonged hospitalization and legal liability. Consequently, various hospital falls prevention programs have been implemented in the last decades. However, most of the programs had no sustained...
rate decreased from 70 pecent to 20 pecent,accordingly.Conclusion Primordial prevention of falls is basic work in general hospital;combination of special prevention and primordial prevention has the better preventive effect;psychological factors should be a higher level preventive strategy of falls. ...
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While the Beers Criteria has been applied to falls prevention, the MAI has not. Developing alternative falls prevention tools has been spurned by both the desire to overcome limitations of the Beers Criteria, coupled with the need for implicit criteria which includes consideration for patient 鈥搒...
D Oliver,F Healey,TP Haines - 《Clinics in Geriatric Medicine》 被引量: 332发表: 2010年 Falls and consequent injuries in hospitalized patients: effects of an interdisciplinary falls prevention program p pBackground/p pPatient falls in hospitals are common and may lead to negative outcomes such ...