Open AccessReducing Falls in Dementia Inpatients Using Vision-Based Technology
Author(s) -
Kay Wright,
Swaran P. Singh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of patient safety
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1549-8425
pISSN - 1549-8417
DOI - 10.1097/pts.0000000000000882
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , computer science , disease
Falls have a significant negative impact on the health and well-being of people with dementia and increase service costs related to staff time, paramedic visits, and accident and emergency (A&E) admissions. We examined whether a remote digital vision-based monitoring and management system had an impact on the prevention of falls.