Identifying low patient movement and then turning patients methodically can prevent pressure ulcers.
Turning patients every 2 hours has been a long-standing tradition, with little evidence to support its practice.
It's either that or start turning patients away, and we swore we'd never do that.
His reputation had grown quickly, and for the past three years, he had been forced to turn new patients away.
I don't think it's a matter of doctors turning patients away.
If nurses are busy, we turn patients in their beds to prevent bed sores.
"We often are jammed up, but we can't turn patients away."
Doctors who think like Scott cite three basic reasons for turning postmenopausal patients away.
Mr. Weintraub also said hospitals would face liability questions if they turned such patients away.
But the study questioned the wisdom of turning patients away.