Identifying patient-centered fall prevention care processes in hip fracture rehabilitation ... Dr. Natalie Leland is an occupational therapy researcher whose ...

Care interventions and quality of care in rural and urban nursing units ... This study addresses the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) research ...

Home modifications: access, funding, and effectiveness ... Although widely used and recommended to prevent falls in the home, there is a gap in understanding ...

Developing biomechanical models from initiated fall actions and reactions in frail elderly patients ... Our goal is to identify primary actions and reactions ...

Develop a prioritized list of physical design interventions to reduce patient falls ... This proposal seeks funding for secondary (additional) analyses of data ...

Preventing future falls among older adults presenting to the emergency department ... Older Americans rely on the emergency department (ED) for acute, unscheduled ...

Labor and delivery nurse staffing: a patient safety intervention ... Numerous studies have identified a relationship between nurse staffing levels and adverse ...

Patient safety in nursing homes: a closer look at improvement ... Recent improvements in measures of patient safety in nursing homes look, at first glance, ...

Using prospective MDS data to enhance resident safety ... The goal of the proposed research is to determine whether preventable adverse outcomes for the frail ...

Impacts of the physical environment on health care ... The U.S. is launching one of the largest hospital building booms in its history, with $16 billion for ...

Testing a restorative care nursing program ... The majority of older adults living in nursing homes require some assistance with activities of daily living ( ...

Call light responsiveness and effect on inpatient falls and patient satisfaction ... Inpatient falls can lead to injury, prolonged stays, lack of patient independence, ...

Evaluation and integration of an automatic fall prediction system ... Goals and significance: After standardized gait and balance assessments (SGB), elderly ...

CAPTURE Falls: collaboration and proactive teamwork used to reduce falls ... Inpatient falls remain a common, costly, and serious adverse event in hospitals. ...

Automatic sensing system to detect falls and fall risk in elders ... One in every three people age 65 or older falls each year, making falls the most common ...

Developing and disseminating a patient safety risk assessment (PSRA) toolkit for integrating safety in the healthcare facility design process ... Quality care ...

Linkages between the safety of the hospital bed, patient falls and immobility ... Fall intervention programs in hospitals and nursing homes are performing ...

An intervention to reduce falls among adults with intellectual disability ... Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) will examine ...

Generalizability and spread of an evidence-based fall prevention toolkit: Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety) ... Falls are a major public ...

Electronic clinical surveillance to measure and improve safety in ambulatory care ... Efforts to improve patient safety have largely focused on inpatient settings, ...