Down with bedrails?

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9406, 2004, Pages 343-344

  O'Keeffe, Shaun T ^a  

^a Merlin Park University Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGITATION; ASPHYXIA; BIOSAFETY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FALLING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; NOTE; NURSING STAFF; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0842283239     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15473-1     Document Type: Note

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