Podcast 107: Hospital falls and how to reduce them

Our conversation is with Dr. Patricia Dykes of Boston’s Partners HealthCare. She’s first author on a paper published in JAMA earlier this week. In her study of fall prevention in hospitals, she and her team randomized eight medical units in four Boston-area hospitals either to their usual standards of fall prevention or to use of the “fall-prevention toolkit” — an intervention customized for each patient. The results are encouraging.

Interview-related links:

• First Watch coverage (free)
• The study abstract in JAMA (free)
• Dr. Dykes’ email address

News-related links:

• Radiology article on CT screening for lung cancer (free)
• National Cancer Institute’s news release on the CT study
• Duloxetine approved for chronic musculoskeletal pain
• BMJ article on vitamin E’s stroke hazards (free)

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