Open AccessOutcome of in-patient falls in hospitals with 100% single rooms and multi-bedded wards
Author(s) -
Inderpal Singh,
J. Okeke,
Chris Edwards
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afv124
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , demographics , observational study , population , hip fracture , retrospective cohort study , poison control , pediatrics , emergency medicine , demography , surgery , osteoporosis , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
Falls in hospital account for almost two-fifths of the patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System in U.K. Studies have suggested an increased incidence of falls in single-bedded hospitals.
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