Balancing the complexity of patient falls: implementing quality improvement and human factors/ergonomics and systems engineering strategies in healthcare

Introduction: Falls are the leading cause of death due to injury among the elderly. Every 24 minutes an older adult dies from a fall related injury. Studies using 3 different methods were performed at a large urban, academic medical center in the US. Aim #1: Understand the advantages and disadvantag...

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Main Author: Laurie Wolf
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Design not elsewhere classified
Human Factors Engineering
Ergonomics
Quality Improvement
Performance improvement
Lean
Six Sigma
Fall prevention
Falls
Inpatient acute hospital fall prevention
Systems engineering
Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21410
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