@article{ref1,
title="US and Dutch nurse experiences with fall prevention technology within nursing home environment and workflow: a qualitative study",
journal="Geriatric nursing",
year="2016",
author="Vandenberg, Ann E. and van Beijnum, Bert-Jan and Overdevest, Vera G. P. and Capezuti, Elizabeth and Johnson, Theodore M.",
volume="38",
number="4",
pages="276-282",
abstract="Falls remain a major geriatric problem, and the search for new solutions continues. We investigated how existing fall prevention technology was experienced within nursing home nurses' environment and workflow. Our NIH-funded study in an American nursing home was followed by a cultural learning exchange with a Dutch nursing home. We constructed two case reports from interview and observational data and compared the magnitude of falls, safety cultures, and technology characteristics and effectiveness. Falls were a high-magnitude problem at the US site, with a collectively vigilant safety culture attending to non-directional audible alarms; falls were a low-magnitude problem at the NL site which employed customizable, infrared sensors that directed text alerts to assigned staff members' mobile devices in patient-centered care culture. Across cases, 1) a coordinated communication system was essential in facilitating effective fall prevention alert response, and 2) nursing home safety culture is tightly associated with the chosen technological system.<br><br>Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0197-4572",
doi="10.1016/j.gerinurse.2016.11.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2016.11.005"
}