A fall risk assessment tool identified as KPJ FRAT (KPJ Fall Risk Assessment Tool) for inpatient was developed and various other strategies to reduce the risk of falls throughout the hospital premises were identified. Points of engagement for inpatient assessment using KPJ FRAT were on admission, ...
Rumero MM, Vaidean G. Development of a risk assessment tool for falls prevention in hospital in patients based on the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI) and modified beer's criteria. Innovations in Pharmacy Article: Practice-Based Research. 2012; 3 (1): 1-2....
Falls are among the most frequent and costly population health issues, costing $50bn each year in the US. In current clinical practice, falls (and associated fall risk) are often self-reported after the “first fall”, delaying primary prevention of fall
The Obstetric Fall Risk Assessment System is intended to improve safety among hospitalized women on obstetric units, using an assessment tool and scoring system to determine fall risk. 展开 关键词: falls falls risk assessment pregnancy obstetric falls ...
Aim. This paper is a report of a study comparing the effectiveness of two falls risk assessment tools (Conley Scale and Hendrich Risk Model) by using them simultaneously with the same sample of hospital inpatients.Background. Different risk assessment tools are available in literature. However, ne...
Background : Falls can have an impact on hospital resources including pressure on nursing productivity. As part of a wider project under the guidance of the Joanna Briggs Institute, St John of God Murdoch Hospital took part in a project designed to investigate if a falls risk assessment was do...
Aranda-Gallardo M , Asencio JMM , Canca-Sanchez JC , Mora-Banderas AM , Moya-Suarez AB & Group for preventing falls in Hospital Costa del Sol ( 2012 ) Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients: a systematic review protocol . Journal of Advanced Nursing 69 ...
Patient education is important because there can be a mismatch between perceived and actual falls risk whilst in hospital [10,11,12]. Hospital falls risks have been historically assessed using tools such as the Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) [18], St Thomas’s Risk Assessment Tool (STRATIFY...
Development of a local malnutrition risk screening tool-hospital (MRST-H) for hospitalised elderly patients INTRODUCTION: Hospitalised elderly patients are at high risk of malnutrition due to the presence of chronic diseases and inadequate food intake. It was on ... H Sakinah,S Suzana,MY Noor Ai...
Not infrequently hospitalized psychiatric patients are diagnosed at risk from their presenting physical conditions, because their assist devices such as a cane or walker may become instruments of harm, but in many cases because of staff over-concern that they may become liabilities to the hospital ...