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Falls risk score removal does not impact inpatient falls: A stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial.

Joanna JellettJean-Christophe CuvellierDiana ClaytonVirginia PlummerTerry Peter Haines
Published in: Journal of clinical nursing (2020)
Falls prevention is an important issue in health services. Removal of a screening risk tool is unlikely to impact falls. This has the potential to reduce nursing administration time that may be otherwise redirected to individual approaches to falls prevention.
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