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Archive > March, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 3

Safety

Five Steps to Fewer Patient Falls

Jeanne Linda, RHIT, CPMSM, CPHW

Patient falls aren't exactly an epidemic in the ambulatory setting. In the five years that we've tracked falls, we never had more than two in a year, and some years there were none at all. But after we had what seemed like a rash of patient falls early last year - three in three months, including one that required stitches - we decided it was time for a formal falls prevention program.

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