Statistics patient falls from ECRI's 2025 database reveal fall causes, settings, and age groups to guide safety improvements.

Patient falls are a serious safety concern in hospitals. Injuries from falls can be devastating to patients and are now subject to reimbursement penalties from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Higher nurse turnover in hospitals was associated with an increase in patient falls, according to a December study published in JAMA Network Open. Long-term care operators may be able to learn from ...

Jack Egnatinsky, MD, medical director of the AAAHC and a retired anesthesiologist, provides guidance for overcoming the ASC challenge of how to prevent patient falls. Dr. Jack Egnatinsky: As the use ...

Falls are a serious public health problem globally, particularly in acute care hospitals, where hospitalized patients are at high risk for falls and may experience adverse outcomes such as prolonged ...

A new study from Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) published in Nursing Outlook finds that nurses' assessments of their staffing adequacy is a more accurate ...

Healthcare facilities around the country are implementing different protocols to limit the number of patient falls, which may result in injury and readmission. 1. Hundreds of thousands of patients ...

Patient falls — a persistent healthcare safety issue — are more often tied to system failures than poor adherence to evidence-based interventions known as fall prevention bundles, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly more patients from the injurious fall group had all but one of the studied prescription classes ...

Three Southeast Michigan hospitals have again been knocked for below average patient safety, according to a national health care watchdog. The Leapfrog Group issued “F” letter grades to three Detroit ...