The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare are offering a guide to help hospitals prevent patient falls and associated injuries.
The guide describes contributing factors and solutions to prevent falls, identified by the center’s project to prevent falls with injury.
The center’s Targeted Solutions Tool helps hospitals to measure and analyze the contributing factors unique to their organizations, based on 30 root causes and 21 targeted solutions.
The tool is available to all Joint Commission-accredited organizations.
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