Abstract:Background:
Preventing inpatient falls is challenging for hospitals to improve and often leads to patient injury.
Purpose:
To describe multifactorial patient-tailored interventions and to evaluate whether they were associated with a sustained decline in total and injury falls.
Methods:
A multifactorial fall prevention program was instituted over the course of several years. An interrupted time series design was used to assess the effect of each intervention on total and injury fall rates. ARIMA models were… Show more
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