Publications by authors named "Arlene Boudreaux"
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- * A nurse-led multidisciplinary team initiated a quality improvement project to customize medication management for these patients, aiming to improve outcomes such as reducing length of stay and patient falls from July 2020 to July 2022.
- * The project significantly increased the accuracy of medication histories taken by pharmacy staff, resulting in improved matching of patients' home regimens and a notable decline in hospital stay length, mortality rates, and fall incidents.
Introduction: Inpatient falls within the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) are a common, and potentially preventable adverse event contributing to morbidity for patients living with epilepsy. Accurate fall risk screening is important to identify and efficiently allocate proper safety measures to high-risk patients, especially in EMUs with limited resources. We sought to compare existing screening tools for the ability to predict falls in the EMU.
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