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Should Caregivers Attempt to Assist Falling Patients?

This quality improvement project seeks to provide guidance on whether caregivers should attempt to “assist” fallers, and if so, the safest way to minimize injury to themselves and the faller. Primary aims were to: 1) Identify common characteristics of documented assisted falls, 2) Identify cases whe...

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Autores principales: Bulat, Tatjana, Friedman, Yvonne, Barrett, Blake, Lind, Jason, Chavez, Margeaux, Cowan, Linda, Martin, Marie, Shaw, Alicia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741588/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.765