The National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable pocket card designed to help healthcare providers measure the risk of patient falls. Healthcare providers can use the Morse Fall ...

Healthcare facilities around the country are implementing different protocols to limit the number of patient falls, which may result in injury and readmission. 1. Hundreds of thousands of patients ...

Patient falls are a serious safety concern in hospitals. Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Data from more than 750 hospitals indicate the most effective tool to reduce inpatient falls is sensor technology, according to a Sept. 10 report from Sg2, a Vizient company. Fall-prevention sensor ...

A study finds higher nurse turnover significantly raises patient falls in U.S. acute care units, highlighting workforce stability's role in safety.

Inpatient clinical care teams generally use tools such as bed alarms, gait belts, closer nursing station placement and more to prevent patient falls. But those interventions can hinder clinical ...

Falls are a serious public health problem globally, particularly in acute care hospitals, where hospitalized patients are at high risk for falls and may experience adverse outcomes such as prolonged ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly more patients from the injurious fall group had all but one of the studied prescription classes ...

St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus didn’t do enough to prevent a patient from falling and injuring their head, a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health shows. Two reports from the ...

Three major hospitals in Rockford, Illinois, received average "C" grades for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group. The nonprofit Leapfrog Group grades hospitals twice a year on preventing medical ...