Documentation of in-hospital falls on incident reports: Qualitative investigation of an imperfect process

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Haines, Terry P ^a,b   Cornwell, Petrea ^c,d   Fleming, Jennifer ^c,d   Varghese, Paul ^d   Gray, Len ^c,d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Southern Health   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FALLING; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; HUMANS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 58249107964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-254     Document Type: Article

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