Ambulatory clinic settings pose unique challenges to mitigating patients’ fall risks, but these interventions can help ensure patient safety.

An AI platform designed to reduce hospital admissions by predicting when elderly individuals ... data logged by carers through a smartphone app to assess a patient’s fall risk. Currently in use across ...

Health and safety reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Health cited St. Luke’s and LVHN for not complying with state ...

While this study provides much insight into factors affecting fall risk among psychiatric inpatients, its retrospective design is an inherent limitation. All factors known to contribute to fall ...

A new study by researchers at Peking University and the Chinese PLA General Hospital has found that multimorbidity-living with multiple chronic diseases-is closely associated with worsening fall ...

Renate Mark, 84, died a day after falling over in a ward at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital last year ...

Falls among older adults represent a growing public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like China. While many studies have linked chronic conditions to fall risks, less ...

Background Inpatient falls are adverse events that often result in injury due to complex interactions between the hospital ...

St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa., was hit with an immediate jeopardy warning in December after a patient ...

The MaineHealth Franklin Hospital Physical Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Department is hosting a free balance clinic for community members who are interested in learning about fall prevention on ...

A woman who it was claimed fell in a toilet cubicle of Beaumont Hospital a day-and-a-half after brain surgery has settled a ...