Conflicting benefits and hazards hospital style bed rails

This paper reviews the design and use of hospital-style bed rails. Rails were originally used as a safety feature for psychiatric patients at risk of falling in the 1800s. There are benefits, for example security in transit, facilitating repositioning, but also hazards, including deaths and injuries...

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Main Author: Sue Hignett
Format: Default Conference proceeding
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/7461
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