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Patient Placement Matters: The Impact Of Unnecessary Lateral Movement On Patients, Jacqueline Strinden
Patient Placement Matters: The Impact Of Unnecessary Lateral Movement On Patients, Jacqueline Strinden
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Patient Placement Matters: The Impact of Unnecessary Lateral Movement on Patients
Abstract
Background: National trends to decrease the number of licensed beds have created inpatient capacity constraints which have resulted in increased unnecessary lateral patient movement events, which contribute to decreased patient safety and quality of care. The incidence of adverse events increases significantly when multiple unnecessary lateral relocations result from secondary efforts to relieve hospital capacity constraints and improve efficiency.
Problem: At a 352 acute care hospital, 12,906 patient movement events were evaluated over a baseline period of three months resulting in an average of 1.48 unnecessary lateral patient …