Managing patient elopements: a proactive response to a reactive event.
A highly publicized policy forbidding hospital patients from going outside the confines of the building has been highly successful in reducing patient elopements, thanks to a multidiscipline approach that usually involves security officers and nursing staff. The policy has been favorably received by regulators, the authors report.
Gallman
Jeremy C
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Corporate Security Operations, Carolinas Medical Center & Levine Children's Hospital, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Carson
Ricky
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D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D017751:Safety Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D012637:Security Measures