Faced with the growing human and financial costs associated with fall-related injuries and fatalities, employers would do well to implement a proactive fall protection program. This involves integrating safety at every stage of a project. This article covers four key areas related to fall protection...
Research to date has focused on fall prevention strategies in single settings (e.g., residential aged care (RAC) or community settings). However, some aged care providers deliver care, including fall prevention interventions, across RAC and community settings. We conducted an umbrella review to ...
25 Many hospitals responded by implementing fall prevention strategies supported by little or no evidence.26 Today there is wide variation in the implementation of effective fall preventive strategies. Financial incentives within the national quality payment program have been used to decrease the frequency...
We developed comprehensive guidelines for economic evaluations of fall prevention interventions to facilitate publication of high-quality economic evaluations of the effective strategies and aid decision making.IntroductionThe importance of economics applied to falls and fall prevention in older people has ...
Behavioral strategies play an important role in outdoor fall prevention. The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of strategy use. Method:Backward stepwise regression was used to study factors associated with use of outdoor fall prevention strategies among a random sample ( N = 120) ...
17、 unit so that fall prevention strategies are targeted to those most at risk. In other words, risk cut off scores may be different depending on if you are using it in an acute care hospital, nursing home or rehabilitation facility.Inaddition,scalesmaybesetdifferentlybetweenparticularunitswithin...
Objective: To compare the use of fall prevention strategies by people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who do or do not fall.Design: Prospective cohort. All assessments were completed between January 2011 and December 2011. Data used in this analysis were collected as part of an observational study...
Osteosarcopenic obesity and fall prevention strategies. Maturitas 2015;80:126-32Hita-Contreras F, Martinez-Amat A, Cruz-Diaz D & Perez-Lopez FR 2015 Osteosarcopenic obesity and fall prevention strategies. Maturitas 80 126-132. (doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2014.11.009)...
In this context, we will present the main trends of machine learning considering the prediction of falls using gait and balance measurements, focusing on pre-frail adults. Although machine learning approaches can offer a qualitative alternative to classical statistical strategies for extracting information...
Clinical Interventions in Aging Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH Integrating Fall Prevention Strategies into EMS Services to Reduce Falls and Associated Healthcare Costs for Older Adults Kathlene Camp 1, Sara Murphy1, Brandon Pate2...