TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Link Between Patients' Perceptions of Their Acute Care Hospital Experience and Institutions' Injurious Fall Rates JO - Journal of nursing care quality A1 - Tzeng, Huey-Ming A1 - Hu, Hsou Mei A1 - Yin, Chang-Yi A1 - Johnson, Daniel SP - 151 EP - 160 VL - 26 IS - 2 N2 - This exploratory study used 4 publicly available large data sets to determine whether significant correlations exist between patients' perceptions of their acute care hospital experience and hospital-acquired injurious fall rates at their hospitals in the states of California, Florida, and New York in 2007. The results showed that the higher the inpatient satisfaction levels with the responsiveness of hospital staff and cleanliness and quietness of the hospital environment, the lower were the injurious fall rates.
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LA - en SN - 1057-3631 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0b013e3181f9604d ID - ref1 ER -