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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"In-hospital falls"”.
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Interdisciplinary Team Approach in Fall Prevention: Physician Perspective Focus
<p>An in-hospital fall is a devastating event for patients and care providers resulting in injuries, physiological and psychological patient declines, and sometimes deaths. Furthermore, fall related costs greatly increase hospitals’ expenses and cause massive distress to caregivers and health …
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A retrospective study to identify unique contributors to falls in hospitalized adult hematology patients
A fall may be defined as an event that results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on a lower level surface or an unplanned descent to the floor with or without injury. Fall prevention is a concept associated with hindering a fall from happening through advance care planning or action. The …
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Factors contributing to falls in a tertiary acute care setting in Cape Town, South Africa: a descriptive study
Introduction. Patient falls occur frequently in the acute hospital setting and are one of the most common adverse events experienced by hospitalised patients. In-hospital falls have negative outcomes for patients, causing injuries in up to half of those who fall. Falls in hospital create additional …
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Efecto de las caídas intrahospitalarias sobre el tiempo total de hospitalización y el riesgo de reingreso en un hospital psiquiátrico de la ciudad de Bogotá entre enero de 2024 y enero de 2025
Introducción: dentro de los eventos en seguridad del paciente, las caídas intrahospitalarias son relevantes por sus implicaciones clínicas. En hospitales generales se han asociado con estancias prolongadas, intervenciones adicionales y complicaciones. En hospitales psiquiátricos, podrían también …