Guide to Bed Safety Brochure

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in partnership with
representatives from the medical bed industry, national health care
organizations, patient advocacy groups, and other federal agencies (Health
Care Financing Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the
Veterans Administration) formed the Hospital Bed Safety Work Group in
2001 to improve the safety of hospital beds for persons
vulnerable to the risk of side rail entrapment.  Members of this work
group include Julie A. Braun, Medicine and Law Committee co-chair, and
Elizabeth A. Capezuti, Medicine and Law Committee vice chair.  This group
created A Guide to Bed Safety and invited the Tort & Insurance Practice
Section to be one of its many sponsors.  For more information about the
Hospital Bed Safety Work Group, visit http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/beds/
or e-mail braun@newnorth.net.

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