FDA Guidance Document: Hospital Bed System Dimensional and Assessment Guidance to Reduce Entrapment.
FDA Guidance Document: Hospital Bed System Dimensional and Assessment Guidance to Reduce Entrapment. Rockville MD: Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration: March 10, 2006.
This advisory suggests that assessing patient risk is a less labor-intensive approach to minimizing bed rail entrapment than the measurement approach recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.