Death rates from falls in acute care settings have risen sharply over the past decade. Reducing risk and ensuring safety requires attention to systems that help prevent and mitigate errors. The utilization of bundled fall prevention interventions that include a patient/family engagement education intervention teaching strategy is the focus of this paper. Design and implementation steps of this quality improvement intervention across two different patient populations and post intervention outcomes are presented.
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