Citation

Staggs VS, Davidson J, Dunton N, Crosser B. J. Nurs. Care Qual. 2014; 30(2): 106-112.

Affiliation

Department of Biostatistics (Dr Staggs) and School of Nursing (Drs Staggs and Dunton and Ms Davidson and Mr Crosser), University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000085

PMID

25188525

Abstract

In 2012, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators launched a project to expand its falls indicator for use on pediatric, neonatal, and psychiatric units. We discuss challenges encountered, argue that schemes for categorizing falls by cause or supposed preventability are not suitable for large-scale efforts to track and prevent falls, express concern about the growing burden of collecting increasingly granular quality data, and discuss limitations of total and injurious fall rates as quality measures.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.

Language: en