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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"hospital falls"”.
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Transforming A Culture Of Quality Through Nurse Engagement: A Leadership Framework
… The framework, implemented in a large academic hospital in New York State, was used to reduce hospital falls. Falls reduced by 30% during the year-long implementation, despite an increase in patient volume.</p>
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Assessment of Falls Protocol Use on Medical-Telemetry Units
… a root cause analysis for an increase in falls at a large, metropolitan hospital and implement interventions designed to reduce the incidence of falls on the medical-telemetry unit.</p> <p>Background: Falls, regardless of severity, may inflict irreparable consequences on patients, …
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Falls Program on an Acute Psychiatric Unit
<p>In the metropolitan hospital’s acute psychiatric unit there has been an increase in falls incidence as well as need for evaluation of the effectiveness of Schmid Fall Risk Assessment tool in its ability to properly identify those at risk. In the last fiscal year there were 45 falls among 28 …
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Perioperative caearean section pain management at Groote Schuur hospital ? an audit
… pain management of caesarean sections at this hospital falls short of best practice as outlined in the PROSPECT guidelines. The introduction of a perioperative protocol, and continuing education of doctors, nurses and patients on pain and its management may be effective ways to improve practice.
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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
… planning or action. The body of knowledge on falls, risk factors, consequences, and prevention originates from studies of older persons who have experienced a fall. The medical community has made several efforts toward fall risk assessment with an emphasis on prevention of the reoccurrence of …
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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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Fall Prevention Through Proactive Toileting
… paper will summarize the quality improvement falls prevention project conducted by a University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader student. Falls in the hospital setting are an ongoing problem in our healthcare system as they have great physical and financial impacts (Salamon, Victory, & …
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Nurse staffing, patient falls and medication errors in Western Australian hospitals: Is there a relationship?
… to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2013) falls and medication errors in hospitals are among the first twenty leading causes of death. Research on the relationship between nurse staffing, patient falls, and medication errors are limited. Even scarcer are studies that examine this …
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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
… 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 influir sobre otros desenlaces, …
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Assessment of Falls on a Medical-Telemetry Unit
… quality improvement project aimed at reducing falls on a medical-telemetry unit in a large metropolitan Magnet hospital. It was important for the MSN/CNL students to focus on falls because it is not just a concern for this institution, it is a national dilemma that needs to be addressed. Due to …