Many older patients fall in the hospital and these falls often lead to injury. Hospitals are under a lot of pressure to reduce falls. Generally, these falls happen when patients transfer such as when an older person tries to get out of bed or get up from a chair. While hospitalized, many patients are weak, dizzy, or confused, and they can be at risk of falling when ambulating without assistance. To reduce this risk, bed alarms have become ubiquitous at hospitals throughout the US. When a patient is deemed to be at high risk of falling, weight sensitive pads are applied to the bed, chair, or commode. When a patient tries to get up, an alarm sounds in the room and at the nursing station. The alarm reminds the patient to wait for assistance, and alerts nursing staff to assist the patient. Remarkably, these alarms have become widely used with virtually no evidence that they actually reduce falls, let alone any studies that examine the adverse consequences of restricting mobi