Patient Engagement November 27, 2020
Infusing patient engagement best practices into a patient safety initiative helped reduce hospital fall rates by 15 percent.
Driving family and patient engagement in hospital patient safety efforts, like reducing falls, can have positive results, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Specifically, a patient-centered fall prevention program yielded a 15 percent reduction in patient falls before and after implementation of the program, the researchers concluded.
Patient falls are a serious patient safety issue, with falls resulting in hip fractures, bruising, or even death. Falls can result in a number of problems, not least of which include poor medical outcomes, a poor patient experience, and increased healthcare costs. After all, the researchers pointed out, most hospital falls are...
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