TY  - SER
AU  - Staggs, Vincent S.
TI  - Challenges in defining and categorizing falls on diverse unit types: lessons from expansion of the NDNQI falls indicator 
SN  - 1057-3631
PY  - 2015///
KW  - Psychiatric clinics
KW  - Practice guidelines
KW  - Quality management
KW  - Pediatrics clinics
KW  - Patient safety
KW  - Accidental falls
N1  - Nursing
N2  - 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
ER  -