Reducing inpatient falls: Human factors & ergonomics offers a novel solution by designing safety from the patients’ perspective

Patients feel safe in the hospital and perceive they are less likely to fall whereas the opposite can be true if weakness, confusion and/or altered elimination issues are experienced as a result of symptoms, medication and/or procedures. A previous editorial from Grealish and Chaboyer (2015) outline...

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Main Authors: Sue Hignett, Laurie Wolf
Format: Default Article
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/20432
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