Evaluation of a falls prevention programme in an acute tertiary care hospital.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate a systematic, coordinated approach to limit the severity and minimize the number of falls in an acute care hospital.

Background: Patient falls are a significant cause of preventable injury and death, particularly in older patients. Best practice principles mandate that hospitals identify those patients at risk of falling and implement interventions to prevent or minimize them.

Comparison of vaccination with measles-mumps-rubella vaccine at 9, 12, and 15 months of age.

To determine seroconversion rates with measles-mumps-rubella vaccine administered to children at 9, 12, or 15 months of age, we undertook a prospective randomized trial. Among children vaccinated at 15 months of age, 98% seroconverted to measles, compared with 95% of those vaccinated at 12 months of age and 87% of those vaccinated at 9 months of age. In each age group, children of mothers born in or before 1963 had lower rates of seroconversion against measles, with the lowest rate in children vaccinated at 9 months.