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Patient and system factors associated with unassisted and injurious falls in hospitals: an observational study

BACKGROUND: Unassisted falls are more likely to result in injury than assisted falls. However, little is known about risk factors for falling unassisted. Furthermore, rural hospitals, which care for a high proportion of older adults, are underrepresented in research on hospital falls. This study ide...

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Autores principales: Venema, Dawn M., Skinner, Anne M., Nailon, Regina, Conley, Deborah, High, Robin, Jones, Katherine J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6907170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31829166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1368-8