title: The experience of a community hospital in quantifying and reducing patient falls.
abstract: A retrospective review of patient falls in a 248-bed acute-care community hospital was conducted in order to quantify the number of patient falls and identify what factors resulted in these falls. The author reports these results and describes specific measures that were implemented in an attempt to reduce the number of falls in the organization.
authors.affiliation: John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson, New York, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alcée
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D009732:Nursing Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011996:Records; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors