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 North Carolina startup is working to change that. DwellSafe, whose team works out of Asheville and New York City, has ...
Overall, there is little variation in interventions used to prevent patient falls, despite different risk levels, according to a new data analysis from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Healthcare facilities around the country are implementing different protocols to limit the number of patient falls, which may result in injury and readmission. 1. Hundreds of thousands of patients ...
Patient falls are a serious safety concern in hospitals. Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...
A patient is in critical condition after falling six stories from a window at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington May 15, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s May 19. The ...
Patients with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severe pain are at an almost 40% predicted probability of falling, indicating the potential interaction between the conditions.
People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at high risk for repeated falls and for fall-related injuries, including fractures and head injuries, researchers report in an article published online ...
The crane is being used to build the state's new forensic psychiatric hospital on the Western State Hospital campus in Lakewood.