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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Falls in older people - NICE quality standard

"This quality standard covers assessment after a fall and preventing further falls (secondary prevention) in older people living in the community and during a hospital stay. Secondary prevention focuses on interventions targeted at older people with a history of falls."

Falls in older people: assessment after a fall and preventing further falls
NICE quality standard [QS86]
March 2015

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Factors influencing the implementation of fall prevention programmes

"The issues identified through this synthesis need to be fully considered and addressed if fall-prevention programmes are to be successfully implemented into clinical practice."

Factors influencing the implementation of fall prevention programmes: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies
S Child, V Goodwin, R Garside, T Jones-Hughes, K Boddy, K Stein
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:91

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Falls Prevention Resources pack

"The Falls Prevention Resources pack comprises a collection of quality improvement best practice measures for assessing the impact of the number of falls in clinical hospital wards as well as preventing and managing falls."

Falls prevention resource pack
Royal College of Physicians
July 2012

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Review of the evidence on falls prevention in hospitals

"To facilitate the development of a hospital falls prevention resource guide, we systematically reviewed and documented the existing evidence base for interventions to prevent falls in hospitals, provided an overview of the performance of existing tools with known measurement properties, and compiled available online resources."

Review of the evidence on falls prevention in hospitals: task 4 final report
S Hempel, S Newberry, Z Wang, PG Shekelle, R Shanman, B Johnsen, T Perry, D Saliba, DA Ganz
February 2012

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