If you have a loved one in a hospital or a nursing-home bed that has a bedrail, check for a gap between the mattress, the bed frame and the bedrail, Miles says.
For more information on patient engagement, check of my white paper on Patient Engagement in Primary Care on my blog Mind the Gap at www.healthecommunications.wordpress.com.
But when a company like Gap, which is just regaining its credibility with customers, says it cannot send quality-assurance teams to check up on its contract manufacturers in Asia, there is a danger that shabby production may undermine its nascent recovery.