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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"inpatient falls"”.
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Opening the Black Box: Understanding Adult Inpatient Falls
<p>Within the United States, falls are the largest category of adverse events reported in hospitals. Injuries associated with falls include increased costs, extended length of stays, increased mortality and morbidity, and liability to hospitals. The purpose of this study was to discover, describe, …
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Toward a transformational roadmap to end pj paralysis: A mixed-methods impact study on patient ambulation initiative at hospitals in Alberta
… outcome and process measures: Length of stay, inpatient falls, discharge disposition, pressure injury, provider experience, and patient mobilization and dressed rates. We analyzed quantitative datasets, including 32,884 patients discharge abstracts, based on the Interrupted Time Series design. …
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Assessment of Falls Protocol Use on Medical-Surgical Units
… up to 6.3 days to the hospital stay (JC, 2015). Falls with serious injury are consistently among the Top 10 sentinel events reported to The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event database (JC, 2015). The most common contributing factors pertaining to falls include inadequate nursing assessment, …
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Identifying Patients with Cancer at Risk of Experiencing a Fall While Hospitalized
Inpatient falls are the most reported incidents in the acute care setting. Symptoms associated with a diagnosis of cancer and treatment may increase risk for falls. The objectives of this study were to identify the risk factors, and the most common risk factors, of adult patients with cancer who …
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Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting
<p>Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting Abstract</p> <p>This project focuses on patient and family fall prevention education through an educational brochure. 4South is a mixed medical/surgical and medical/surgical-telemetry unit, specializing in dialysis and stroke patients. Since January 2017, …
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"Call Before You Fall"
… Outcomes (CALNOC) have prioritized reduction of inpatient falls as a patient safety goal. An improvement project utilizing the model for improvement and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles was conducted on a 40-bed unit that provides care to cardiac, and medical-surgical patients. The current fall …
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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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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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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 …