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Fall and Injury Prevention
- Article from:
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Annual Review of Nursing Research
- Article date:
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January 1, 2006
- Author:
- Currie, Leanne M
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Copyright informationCopyright Springer Publishing Company 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Chapter 3
ABSTRACT
Falls and related injuries are increasingly being recognized as a nursing-sensitive quality indicator, and they continue to be an unsolved patient safety problem in inpatient and outpatient care areas as well as in the community at large. The purpose of this revie
w is to summarize the current research related to fall and injury prevention. The chapter is organized presenting research in (1) the community and (2) acute and long-term care settings. For each setting, the research that addresses risk factors , risk assessment instruments, and fall and injury prevention efforts are reviewed. There is a large body of research that investigates fall and injury prevention across ...