title: An interdisciplinary momentary confluence of events model to explain, minimize, and prevent pediatric patient falls and fall-related injuries.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article reviews theoretical, empirical, and clinical evidence to support the hypothesis that pediatric patient fall episodes are rarely predictable; rather, falls and fall-related injuries occur during the momentary convergence of child, parent, and caregiver human factors, and environmental, biomechanical, and system factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We propose an interdisciplinary pediatric fall and injury prevention model to guide future research toward interventions to prevent or minimize pediatric patient falls and injuries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  When falls and near miss falls occur, nurses' detailed descriptions of each model component are critical to discovery of more effective pediatric fall and injury prevention methods.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA. nancy.ryan-wenger@nataionwidechildrens.org
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Ryan-Wenger
authors.forename: Janet S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Dufek
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010372:Pediatrics; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology