Impact of a fall prevention program in the Internal Medicine wards of a tertiary care university hospital

Objective: To determine whether a falls prevention program reduces the incidence of falls within a hospital. Materials and methods: Each patient admitted to the Internal Medicine ward was classiied into a risk category (high, medium, low) according to the scale of J.H. Downton, and then various gen...

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Autores principales: Lara Medrano, Reynaldo, Alcázar Quiñones, Carlos, Galarza Delgado, Dionicio Ángel, Baena Trejo, Laura
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: UANL. Facultad de Medicina 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://eprints.uanl.mx/11474/1/X1665579614675994_S300_en.pdf