Interdisciplinary Approach to Fall Prevention in a High-Risk Inpatient Pediatric Population: Quality Improvement Project | Zendy

Kendra E. Stubbs | Zendy; Lindsay Sikes | Zendy

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Fall Prevention in a High-Risk Inpatient Pediatric Population: Quality Improvement Project

Author(s) -

Kendra E. Stubbs,

Lindsay Sikes

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20150213

Subject(s) - medicine , quality management , fall prevention , quality (philosophy) , medical emergency , injury prevention , poison control , operations management , engineering , management system , philosophy , epistemology

Within a tertiary care pediatric medical center, the largest number of inpatient falls (8.84 falls per 1,000 patient days) occurred within a 14-bed rehabilitation/transitional care unit between February and September 2009. An interdisciplinary fall prevention program, called "Red Light, Green Light," was developed to better educate all staff and family members to ensure safety of transfers and ambulation of children with neurological impairments.

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