Do portable nursing stations within bays of hospital wards reduce the rate of inpatient falls?: An interrupted time-series analysis
Age and Aging Jul 21, 2018
Ali UM, et al. - Researchers investigated the efficacy of a strategy that involves introducing portable nursing stations in ward bays to maximise nurse–patient contact time, for attenuating inpatient falls. In UK, they gathered monthly (April 2014–December 2017) inpatient falls data from local hospital incident reporting software (Datix) from 17 wards in Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe General Hospitals. From April 2016, portable nursing stations were introduced in bays on these wards. They assessed changes in fall rates, measured by the monthly rate of falls per 1000 occupied bed days (OBDs), by using a natural experimental study design and interrupting time series analysis. They observed lower monthly falls rates related to portable nursing stations. Moreover, this strategy could reduce inpatient falls across the NHS.
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