The Effect of Changing Practice on Fall Prevention in a Rehabilitative Hospital: The Hospital Injury Prevention Study

Objectives: To determine whether a change in practice to introduce a multidisciplinary fall‐prevention program can reduce falls and injury in nonacute patients in a rehabilitation hospital.

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