Patient safety in patients who occupy beds on clinically inappropriate wards: a qualitative interview study with NHS staff.

Lucy Goulding; Joy Adamson; Ian Watt; John Wright

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Patient safety in patients who occupy beds on clinically inappropriate wards: a qualitative interview study with NHS staff.

December 7, 2011

Goulding L, Adamson J, Watt I, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21(3):218-24.

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This study found that providers were concerned about patients boarded on the wrong unit, unnecessarily increasing their risk for an adverse event.

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