Understanding Design Vulnerabilities in the Physical Environment Relating to Patient Fall Patterns in a Psychiatric Hospital: Seven Years of Sentinel Events.
Sara BayramzadehMargaret PortilloCandy Carmel-GilfilenPublished in: Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (2018)
The physical environment plays an often-unexamined role in fall events and specific locations. These results are deserving of further research on design strategies and applications to reduce patient falls in psychiatric hospital settings.