Link between patients' perceptions of their acute care hospital experience and institutions' injurious fall rates

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-160

  Tzeng, Huey Ming ^a   Hu, Hsou Mei ^b   Yin, Chang Yi ^d   Johnson, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^c IN SITE LLC   (United States)

^d CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

accidental fall; hospitals; inpatients; nursing; patient rooms; quality of health care; safety

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; FALLING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INPATIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953106952     PISSN: 10573631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0b013e3181f9604d     Document Type: Article

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