Safety Standards: Implementing Fall Prevention Interventions and Sustaining Lower Fall Rates by Promoting the Culture of Safety on an Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to review a quality improvement project aimed to examine how nurse leaders in an inpatient rehabilitation (IPR) unit can reduce the number of patient falls by implementing multiple fall prevention interventions and sustain their results by promoting a strong culture of safety on the unit.

Design And Methods: A retrospective review of IPR fall rates was performed. Quarterly fall rates were then compared with implementation dates of fall prevention interventions (safety huddles, signage, and hourly rounding).

IgG antibodies against common gut bacteria are more diagnostic for Crohn's disease than IgG against mannan or flagellin.

Introduction: Antibodies to baker's yeast (mannan) have been widely used to aid in diagnosis of Crohn's disease. Recently, there has been interest in antibodies against a flagellin from Clostridium coccoides subphylum. We hypothesized that reactivity with these antigens is a surrogate marker for a generalized increased IgG response against intestinal microbiota in Crohn's disease.