The National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable pocket card designed to help healthcare providers measure the risk of patient falls. Healthcare providers can use the Morse Fall ...

Overall, there is little variation in interventions used to prevent patient falls, despite different risk levels, according to a new data analysis from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Stephanie Conquest, RN, administrator of Franklin, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Surgery Center Cool Springs, joined Becker’s to discuss key strategies for enhancing quality and patient satisfaction and the ...

Patient falls are a serious safety concern in hospitals. Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Patients taking antihypertensive medication experienced a higher rate of serious fall injuries, especially if they had a previous fall injury, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Using the ...

A patient died Saturday morning after falling from an upper floor inside Mohammed VI University Hospital, hospital officials ...

Hospital staff were warned several times that a patient was unsteady before he fell and suffered a catastrophic brain injury, an inquest heard. Gregory Dervin, 35, died a week after hitting his head ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly more patients from the injurious fall group had all but one of the studied prescription classes ...

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at high risk for repeated falls and for fall-related injuries, including fractures and head injuries, researchers report in an article published online ...

Authorities launched an inquiry after a video surfaced showing alleged mismanagement in Cuttack's SCB Medical College and ...