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Acute care patient falls: evaluation of a revised fall prevention program following comparative analysis of psychiatric and medical patient falls.

Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory, NC 28602, USA.
Applied nursing research: ANR (impact factor: 0.87). 08/2010; 25(2):68-74. DOI:10.1016/j.apnr.2010.06.003 pp.68-74
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ABSTRACT Eliminating falls and fall-associated injuries are priorities in health care. This study examined the impact of revised fall prevention interventions on psychiatric and medical patient falls. After policy revisions were well established, psychiatric falls diminished and medical falls increased. A contributing factor to the medical population finding was policy intervention noncompliance.

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Keywords

fall prevention interventions
 
health care
 
medical patient
 
medical population
 
policy revisions
 

Kimberly M Yates