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Practice Innovations
Patient Falls Prevention: Assessing the Use of an Innovative Color-Coded Flag System in an Outpatient Oncology Infusion Center
CJON 2020, 24(4), 448-450 DOI: 10.1188/20.CJON.448-450
Patients in outpatient oncology settings are highly susceptible to falls. Because clothing can hide a patient’s wrists, fall-alert risk bands may not be not consistently visible. Using an inexpensive, innovative, and visually accessible color-coded flag system placed outside of each infusion room decreased the outpatient oncology patient fall rate from 5% to 0% within six months.
AT A GLANCE
- Falls with injury cause emotional and physical distress in patients with cancer.
- An effective strategy to prevent patient falls in the outpatient infusion center is to implement a color-coded flag system.
- The inexpensive color-coded flag system used in this project helped to reduce the rate of falls.
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