منابع مشابه
Risk factors for falls during inpatient rehabilitation.
OBJECTIVE To determine risk factors for falls during inpatient rehabilitation on the basis of admission data, and to assess the predictive value of the FIM instrument. DESIGN One thousand four hundred seventy-two patients consecutively admitted to a large tertiary care rehabilitation center during 18 mos were included in this retrospective study. Events surrounding falls were reported by clin...
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for pediatric inpatients falls. METHODS The study was a matched case-control design. The participants were 279 patients under the age of 6 who were admitted between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2009. Through chart reviews, 93 pediatric patients who fell and 186 ones who did not fall were paired by gender, age, diagnosis, and l...
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A frequently occurring job during on-call and out-of-hours shifts is reviewing a patient following a fall with this often being the responsibility of the most junior and inexperienced doctors. Following a pilot audit we identified inconsistencies in medical assessment and documentation, with 50% of expected data points not recorded. Failure to complete a thorough assessment can lead to missed i...
متن کاملAre call light use and response time correlated with inpatient falls and inpatient dissatisfaction?
Inpatients use call lights to seek nurses' assistance. Although implied in patient safety, no studies have analyzed data related to the use of or response time to call lights collected by existing tracking mechanisms monitoring nursing practice. This study used archived hospital data to determine the correlation of the call light use rate and the average call light response time with the fall r...
متن کاملMajor Predictors of Inpatient Falls: A Multisite Study.
OBJECTIVE The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to identify key factors predictive of falls in hospitals. BACKGROUND Patient falls remain a major concern for hospitals. Falls can increase patient morbidity/mortality and increase legal risk/cost for institutions. While a number of high-risk falls assessments are available, key predictors of falls have not been identified. METHODS A...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Neurohospitalist
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1941-8744,1941-8752
DOI: 10.1177/1941874412470665