A multicomponent fall prevention strategy reduces falls at an academic medical center.

Dan France; Jenny Slayton; Sonya Moore; Henry J. Domenico; Julia Matthews; Robin L Steaban; Neesha Choma

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A multicomponent fall prevention strategy reduces falls at an academic medical center.

September 6, 2017

France D, Slayton J, Moore S, et al. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2017;43(9).

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Fall prevention remains a patient safety priority. This pre–post study of a multimodal quality improvement intervention in three hospital units demonstrated a decrease in the number of falls. However, the lack of concurrent controls makes it unclear whether this change was attributable to the intervention.

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