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

• Main Authors: Fleming Jennifer (Author), Cornwell Petrea (Author), Haines Terry P (Author), Varghese Paul (Author), Gray Len (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<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...