Reducing inpatient falls in a 100% single room elderly care environment

"The nurse training programme on falls risk assessment has improved nurse knowledge of falls risk and actual completion of Falls Risk Assessments. This is especially in areas of cognition, environmental hazard, osteoporosis risk. The collaborative quality improvement work has led to a reduction of inpatient falls by 34% in a high-risk 100% single room environment." 

Reducing inpatient falls in a 100% single room elderly care environment: evaluation of the impact of a systematic nurse training programme on falls risk assessment (FRA)
I Singh, J Okeke
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u210921.w4741

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