Do portable nursing stations within bays of hospital wards reduce the rate of inpatient falls? An interrupted time-series analysis

<strong>Background</strong> falls can negatively affect patients, resulting in loss of independence and functional decline and have substantial healthcare costs. Hospitals are a high-risk falls environment and regularly introduce, but seldom evaluate, policies to reduce inpatient falls....

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Main Authors: Ali, U, Judge, A, Foster, C, Brooke, A, James, K, Marriot, T, Lamb, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2018