Hospitals Experiment With Efforts To Avoid Patient Falls
New Medicare policies that deny reimbursements for some patient falls and state laws that require hospitals to report fall rates are encouraging hospital leaders to take more aggressive steps to avoid patient falls. Strategies include identifying patients at high risk of falls, using lower beds and avoiding some medications.
- "Hospitals Work To Prevent Patients From Falling" (Pfeiffer, "All Things Considered," NPR, 9/8).