Classification of injurious fall severity in hospitalized adults - Burns Z, Khasnabish S, Hurley AC, Lindros ME, Carroll DL, Kurian S, Alfieri L, Ryan V, Adelman J, Bogaisky M, Adkison L, Ping Yu S, Scanlan M, Herlihy L, Jackson E, Lipsitz SR, Christiansen T, Bates DW, Dykes PC.

BACKGROUND: Many hospital systems in the United States report injurious inpatient falls using the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) categories: None, Minor, Moderate, Major, and Death. The Major category is imprecise, including injuri...
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