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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-12-01
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Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8/254 |