title: Magnet children's hospitals: leading knowledge development and quality standards for inpatient pediatric fall prevention programs.
abstract: Magnet hospitals are required to monitor nursing-sensitive indicators and be above the mean/median of national benchmarks for those indicators. When there is no valid national benchmark, as is the case for most of the pediatric indicators, a hospital seeking Magnet designation or redesignation is charged with taking a leadership role in developing a mechanism that leads to the establishment of a national benchmark for the indicator of choice. This article will present the efforts taken by Magnet Children's hospitals to establish valid pediatric screening tools and benchmark inpatient pediatric falls.
authors.affiliation: Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA. egraf@childrensmemorial.org
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Graf
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000293:Adolescent; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods*; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult