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Denise Goldsmith1, Lyubov Zuyev, Angie Benoit
1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Center for Nursing Excellence, Boston, MA, USA. dgoldsmith@partners.org
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|July 14, 2009
Abstract:
Efforts to prevent falls in the hospital setting involves identifying patients at risk of falling and implementing fall prevention strategies. This poster describes the method and results of Performance Usability Testing on a web-based Fall Prevention Tool Kit (FPTK) developed as part of a research study, (Falls TIPS-Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety) funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
