In the UK alone, the annual cost of falls to the National Health Service (NHS) is estimated as being in excess of £2.3 billion and it is anticipated that this figure will continue to rise [5]. Approximately 30% of older adults over the age of 65 years and 50% of adults over ...
Jester R, Wade S, Henderson K: A pilot investigation of the efficacy of falls risk assessment tools and prevention strategies in an elderly hip fracture population. J Orthop Nurs 2005, 9: 27–34.Jester R, Wade S, Henderson K. A pilot investigation of the efficacy of falls risk assessment...
Both of these hospitals had falls prevention interventions in place as a part of usual care including use of falls risk screening/assessment tools, provision of falls risk alert signage, nursing falls care plans and provision of multiple allied health therapies including physiotherapy. However, the ...
proactive, and self-referred pathways [65]. Eldridge and colleagues estimated that the number of fallers declined by 6.5% under the programme versus usual care and by 11.3% if the falls risk screening rate
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The main finding of this survey is that multi-factorial assessment and intervention is the most common form of NHS falls service. Services have been established, but there is now a substantial concern that significant numbers of services are failing to attain the standards set for multi-factorial...
We ascertained fractures using multiple methods, from a) UK National Health Service (NHS) Digital Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) (Admitted Patient Care and Accident and Emergency data); b) general practices using consultation codes, x-ray reports and hospital correspondence; and c) participant ...
risk of outdoor falls [14,25]. In addition, we recruited users of a post-fall service provided by the National Health Service (NHS) as they tend to represent frailer older people who have experienced an injurious fall requiring medical treatment. NHS patients were identified by the direct ...
The cost to the NHS was previously estimated at d981 million,2 but a more recent report suggests that the NHS spends d1.7 billion per annum solely treating hip fractures resulting from falls.3 The major financial implications at the population level,2 has made the issue important politically, ...
The results of national audit suggest that NHS acute hospitals could do more to reduce the incidence of falls among inpatients. 展开 关键词: Acute hospital falls multifactorial falls risk assessments patient safety prevention DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-360 年份: 2017 ...