Challenges in defining and categorizing falls on diverse unit types : lessons from expansion of the NDNQI falls indicator /
Staggs, Vincent S.
Challenges in defining and categorizing falls on diverse unit types : lessons from expansion of the NDNQI falls indicator / Vincent S. Staggs, Jan Davidson, Nancy Dunton, Brandon Crosser - April-June 2015 - Journal of Nursing Care Quality 30 : 2, Page 106-112 .
In 2012, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators launched a project to expand its falls indicator for use on pediatric, neonatal, and psychiatric units. We discuss challenges encountered, argue that schemes for categorizing falls by cause or supposed preventability are not suitable for large-scale efforts to track and prevent falls, express concern about the growing burden of collecting increasingly granular quality data, and discuss limitations of total and injurious fall rates as quality measures.
Nursing
1057-3631
Psychiatric clinics.
Practice guidelines.
Quality management.
Pediatrics clinics.
Patient safety.
Accidental falls.
Challenges in defining and categorizing falls on diverse unit types : lessons from expansion of the NDNQI falls indicator / Vincent S. Staggs, Jan Davidson, Nancy Dunton, Brandon Crosser - April-June 2015 - Journal of Nursing Care Quality 30 : 2, Page 106-112 .
In 2012, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators launched a project to expand its falls indicator for use on pediatric, neonatal, and psychiatric units. We discuss challenges encountered, argue that schemes for categorizing falls by cause or supposed preventability are not suitable for large-scale efforts to track and prevent falls, express concern about the growing burden of collecting increasingly granular quality data, and discuss limitations of total and injurious fall rates as quality measures.
Nursing
1057-3631
Psychiatric clinics.
Practice guidelines.
Quality management.
Pediatrics clinics.
Patient safety.
Accidental falls.