Falls in English and Welsh hospitals: a national observational study based on retrospective analysis of 12 months of patient safety incident reports.

F Healey; S Scobie; D Oliver; A Pryce; R Thomson; B Glampson

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Falls in English and Welsh hospitals: a national observational study based on retrospective analysis of 12 months of patient safety incident reports.

January 7, 2009

Healey F, Scobie S, Oliver D, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17(6):424-30.

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This multi-institutional survey sought to characterize the incidence of falls among inpatients in different hospital environments and identified wide variation in both fall rates and reporting practices.

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