Documentation of in-hospital falls on incident reports: Qualitative investigation of an imperfect process

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Incident reporting is the prevailing approach to gathering data on accidental falls in hospitals for both research and quality assurance purposes, though is of questionable quality as staff time pressures, perception of blame and oth...

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Main Authors: Fleming Jennifer, Cornwell Petrea, Haines Terry P, Varghese Paul, Gray Len
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-12-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8/254