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The Safety of Hospital Beds: Ingress, Egress, and In-Bed Mobility.
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- Fall-from-Bed Risk Prediction Using Physics-Based Bed Simulation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Identifying contributing-factor configurations in reported bed falls: a Bayesian network-based exploratory study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Falls in a single brain rehabilitation center: a 3-year retrospective chart review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- An evaluation of the performance of medical helmets used in healthcare for the protection of vulnerable patients.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Effects of Bed Height on Balance during Ingress and Egress from a Hospital Bed.International journal of nursing and health care research · 2024Article
- Optimizing aged care environments to promote resident functional mobility and reduce staff injury risk.Frontiers in aging · 2023Article
- Co-Design in Electrical Medical Beds with Caregivers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Pre-operative physiotherapy following unilateral ankle fractures at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: Perceptions of patients and nurses.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2021Article
- An Internet of Things Based Bed-Egress Alerting Paradigm Using Wearable Sensors in Elderly Care Environment.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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Abstract
To explore the safety of the standard and the low hospital bed, we report on a microanalysis of 15 patients' ability to ingress, move about the bed, and egress. The 15 participants were purposefully selected with various disabilities. Bed conditions were randomized with side rails up or down and one low bed with side rails down. We explored the patients' use of the side rails, bed height, ability to lift their legs onto the mattress, and ability to turn, egress, and walk back to the chair. The standard bed was too high for some participants, both for ingress and egress. Side rails were used by most participants when entering, turning in bed, and exiting. We recommend that side rails be reconsidered as a means to facilitate in-bed movement, ingress, and egress. Furthermore, single deck height settings for all patients are not optimal. Low beds as a safety measure must be re-evaluated.
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