FALL AND PATIENT SAFETY

Patient Safety

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1. Identity a quality improvement initiative of (Fall and patient Safety ) that relates to improving geriatric population health outcome. Have these initiatives been successful? Why or why not?

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Fall and Patient Safety: F-Tag 323

Health care professionals are toiling to find ways of preventing falls amongst older adults. Falls heavily contribute to injuries to persons over the age of sixty-five years (Aronovitch, 2014). A significant portion of elderly persons in the United States lives in long term care facilities. Some of them end up getting injured as a result of falls in long-term care facilities. To eliminate and mitigate…

 

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