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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Oxford University Press
2018
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