Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis
(2019)
Journal Article
Timmons, S., Vezyridis, P., & Sahota, O. (2019). Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(6), 1104-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12889
This paper analyses the 'failure' of a patient safety intervention. Our study was part of an RCT of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio pagers to prevent bedside falls in older people admitted to hospital. We use agential realism w... Read More about Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis.