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Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research: A Review of the Research on In-Patient Falls in a Medical Setting

The following sample Nursing research paper is 1665 words long, in APA format, and written at the undergraduate level. It has been downloaded 366 times and is available for you to use, free of charge.

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Multifactoral interventions reduced the rate of inpatient falls from .60 to .51 in 5 trials with 5095 participants. Vitamin D supplementation reduced the rate of falls from .85 to .77 in 4 trials involving 1651 participants. Vitamin D supplements also reduced the rate of falls from .72 to .55. Supervised exercise interventions showed a significant reduction in the risk of falling from .44 to .20 in 3 trials involving 131 participants. The number of falls in the control group was 87 while the number of falls in the intervention group was 67.Site-adjusted fall rates were 4.18% higher in control units than intervention units where fall rates are 3.15%.

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