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**Fall prevention- In patients 65 years and older do bed/chair alarms…
**Fall prevention- In patients 65 years and older do bed/chair alarms reduce the number of falls during stay in a healthcare setting in 3 months?
Other prevention strategies (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.)
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Risk factors for falls (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.)
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Types of alarms
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Wireless alarms (Torres, et. al., 2017)
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Disadvantages to using bed-chair alarms (Shee, et. al., 2014)
- does not actually prevent falls
- Nurses forget to turn on alarms
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- Not always accurate to when the patient is getting out of bed
- Can sound similiar to other hospital alarms
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Ways to inform the patient about bed/chair alarms and fall prevention (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.)
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