Patient Falls

6 Contributing Factors to Patient Falls and How to Address Them

A report released by the Health Research & Educational Trust outlines how five major hospitals reduced overall falls by 35 percent.

October 6, 2016

Matt O'Connor

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A report released by the AHA's Health Research & Educational Trust outlines how five major hospitals were able to reduce overall patient falls by 35 percent.

Action Needed More than Data Collection in Improving Quality

Quality experts Berwick and Shojania say the resources are there for the field to use.

January 27, 2016

Paul Barr

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Hospital field leaders seeking to improve patient safety and quality have a couple of in-house resources that could be used more effectively: their own patient safety and quality data and their own patients, according to two leading quality experts.

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Joint Commission Highlights Patient Fall Causes in Alert

Joint Commission also offers toolkit, adding to the array of assistance available from health care organizations.

September 29, 2015

Paul Barr

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Joint Commission also offers toolkit, adding to the array of assistance available from health care organizations.

Joint Commission Tool Designed to Stop Patients from Falling Down

Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare releases new set of strategies to help health care organizations reduce one of the field's most persistent patient safety issues.

August 12, 2015

Marty Stempniak

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Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare releases new set of strategies to help health care organizations reduce one of the field's most persistent patient safety issues.

Health Care's 'Thorny Problem' That Just Won't Go Away

At the White House Conference on Aging, CDC promotes toolkit to prevent patient falls.

July 13, 2015

Marty Stempniak

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At the White House Conference on Aging, CDC promotes toolkit to prevent patient falls.

Mississippi Academic Medical Center Tackles Patient Falls

Saddled with a rate above the national average in one inpatient unit — at 6.2 falls per 1,000 patient days — the University of Mississippi Medical Center was able to drop that number to 1.19 after a few months.

June 9, 2015

Marty Stempniak

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Saddled with a rate above the national average in one inpatient unit — at 6.2 falls per 1,000 patient days — the University of Mississippi Medical Center was able to drop that number to 1.19 after a few months.

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Preventing Patient Falls is a Team Effort

Across Nebraska, 19 hospitals — including 16 critical access hospitals — are implementing an evidence-based approach to keeping patients upright and reducing injuries from preventable falls.

March 23, 2015

Suzanna Hoppszallern

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Across Nebraska, 19 hospitals — including 16 critical access hospitals — are implementing an evidence-based approach to keeping patients upright and reducing injuries from preventable falls.