Low staffing levels and “missed nursing care” may be directly associated with higher risk of patient falls, according to research published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. For their study, ...
The National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable pocket card designed to help healthcare providers measure the risk of patient falls. Healthcare providers can use the Morse Fall ...
A recent study conducted by researchers from Seattle-based University of Washington and Durham, N.C.-based Duke University found a strong association between the use of fall-risk increasing drugs and ...
Inpatient clinical care teams generally use tools such as bed alarms, gait belts, closer nursing station placement and more to prevent patient falls. But those interventions can hinder clinical ...
Falls are a serious public health problem globally, particularly in acute care hospitals, where hospitalized patients are at high risk for falls and may experience adverse outcomes such as prolonged ...
Sensor data from wearable devices analyzed over five years reveals walking and posture differences that predict fall risk in Parkinson’s patients. Study: Predicting future fallers in Parkinson’s ...
More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited an emergency department because of injuries sustained in a fall suffered adverse events -- including additional falls, hospitalization ...
A new study by researchers at Peking University and the Chinese PLA General Hospital has found that multimorbidity—living with multiple chronic diseases—is closely associated with worsening fall ...
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