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| Quality Improvement Report |
| September 2008 |
| Hourly rounding, huddles help prevent patient falls |
| To reduce patient falls, hospitals should build a care plan that addresses every patient's specific needs and frailties.
And should someone tumble despite those precautions, clinicians should form a postfall huddle to ask what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent it from occurring again.
"Those ideas, in my mind, are powerful," says Gail Nielsen, BSHCA, a fellow for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and clinical performance improvement education administrator for Iowa Health System. |
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