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Do portable nursing stations within bays of hospital wards reduce the rate of inpatient falls? An interrupted time-series analysis

BACKGROUND: falls can negatively affect patients, resulting in loss of independence and functional decline and have substantial healthcare costs. Hospitals are a high-risk falls environment and regularly introduce, but seldom evaluate, policies to reduce inpatient falls. This study evaluated whether...

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Autores principales: Ali, U M, Judge, A, Foster, C, Brooke, A, James, K, Marriott, T, Lamb, S E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30010697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afy097