Using hierarchical generalized linear models, we find that higher ratings of patient safety culture were significantly related to lower prevalence of physical restraints (est. = -.003; p<.001) and resident falls (est= -.001; p<.05). Furthermore, poorer processes of care (catheterization and ...
Psychoactive medications or restraints are often used to manage disruptive behaviors [13]; however, these often lead to falls, impaired functioning, and decreased mobility. The use of restraints is also an affront to personal dignity. The better approach to managing disruptive behaviors is to ...
including cognitive impairment; it is critical to enhance resident safety measured by falls, accidents, and injuries and staff knowledge related to recognition, reporting, and treatment of resident-to-resident aggressive and related negative interactions in such settings. This ...
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities have been targeted byplaintiff's attorneys who advertise heavily in an effort to solicitplaintiffs for malpractice suits. Often, the plaintiffs are unhappyfamily members of residents who have experienc...
Recommends the use of the gait harness to prevent falls in nursing homes. Experiences of therapists working in long-term care facilities; How the gait harness reduces a resident's risk of falling; Psychological benefit gained by residents.MILLEN, JOSEPHNursing Homes Long Term Care Management...
When family members admit a loved one to a nursing home, they expect that the facility will assure the physical safety of the residents. However, this does not always occur. Safety concerns persisting in at least some modern American nursing homes involve adverse drug events, injurious falls, ...
The odds of residents exhibiting aggressive behaviors declined by 20% per quarter, depressive symptoms by 16%, reported pain by 17%, and falls by 8%. Conclusions and Implications This is the largest study of M&M to date. We found clinically and statistically significant reductions in ...
(reduction in resident falls, improved resident sleep, reduction in distressing behaviors, and increased resident engagement), and Staying the Course (sustainment of the initiative).#Findings highlight how participants overcame barriers and successfully eliminated resident position-change alarms and sustained...
fallssafetyprescription medicationsMDSOBJECTIVES: To determine whether resident and facility characteristics and prescription medications influence the occurrence of fractures in nursing homes (NHs).doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01081.xSpector, William
In the past, we designed syndromes such as falls, flu, and last year, COVID with the standard query language. Now we want to combine 'hard' data such as sociodemographic profiles and COVID vaccines with 'soft' textual data such as COVID and emergency calls syndromes to get a better ...