Predicting Injurious Falls in the Hospital Setting: Implications for Practicefallsfall-related injuryhospital-acquired conditioninjurious fallsinpatientBackground: Despite years of research and increasingly evidence-based practice, falls continue to be the most commonly reported adverse events experienced by ...
Thus, intensive patient education appears to be an efficacious means for preventing falls in the hospital setting. A key consideration in determining whether an intervention should be provided in a given hospital setting is whether the effects of a program justify the costs of providing that program...
Falls in the acute hospital setting--impact on resource utilisation. To determine the resource utilisation of patients who fall within an acute metropolitan hospital.Retrospective observational study, part of a larger falls ... D Keith,Hill,Michelle,... - 《Australian Health Review A Publication of...
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of introduction of a bedrail policy, and an educational program, on patient falls and fall-related injuries. DESIGN: A prospective “Before and After” design. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: All patients admitted during 1 calendar year in an assessment, treatment, ...
BackgroundThe behaviour of hospitalized older adults can contribute to falls, a common adverse event during and after hospitalization.ObjectiveTo understand why older adults take risks that may lead to falls in the hospital setting and in the transition period following discharge home.DesignQualitative ...
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Falls risk factors in the hospital setting: a systematic review. The objective of this systematic review was to summarize the best available evidence on the factors that increase the risk of patients falling during hospi... B Hodgkinson,WD Evans,J Wood,... - 《International Journal of Nursing...
Using combined explicit/implicit falls assessment criteria using both the Beers Criteria and MAI as a framework, a falls specific inappropriate prescribing (FASPIP) tool for use in elderly hospitalized patients was developed. Validation of the FASPIP in the clinical setting is needed....
This controlled study has shown the efficacy of a structured interdisciplinary approach to the management and prevention of falls in older people in a routine service setting. The numbers of subsequent falls and people with recurrent falls were significantly and substantially reduced. The multifactorial ...
The Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) was by far the commonest, with smaller numbers using the Tinetti POMA, TUG test, Falls Risk Assessment Score for the Elderly (FRASE) [32], and Berg Balance Scale. Validation of a falls risk assessment tool in the subacute hospital setting: A pilot st...