Falls Prevention and Reducing the Severity of Injury from Falls

Objectives. Understand the comprehensive roadmap to fall prevention Reduce falls by implementing fall reduction interventions specific to a patients' condition and fall riskImplement interventions to reduce the severity of injury from a fall. Why a Roadmap for Falls Prevention? . Falls in hospitals have a debilitating impact on patients' lives. Using very conservative estimates, there are more than 500,000 falls each year in U.S. hospitals, resulting in 150,000 injuries. Falls also have a sig288

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