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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/tzeng-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - and injurious fall rates. … The fall rate per 1000 patient-days
2. The injurious fall rate per 1000 patient-days
3. … The two primary dependent variables were the fall rate and the injurious fall rate. … and injurious fall rates. … and injurious fall
rates.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/spotlights/spotlight-falls-rev.pdf
March 01, 2023 - (DE201)
■ Type of Injury as a Result of Fall (DE204)
■ Patient Activity Prior to Fall (DE207)
■ Risk … Assessment Prior to Fall (DE210)
■ Risk Factor(s) Prior to Fall (DE216)
Further, for the above analyses … Activity Prior to Fall
Figure 4 shows Commonly specified activities prior to fall by age for female … Figure 5 – Risk Assessment Prior to Fall by Age and Sex
Risk Factor(s) Prior to Fall
Figure 6 shows … Activity Prior to Fall
Risk Assessment Prior to Fall
Risk Factor(s) Prior to Fall
Conclusions
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/reports.html
November 01, 2017 - on which the fall occurred. … Shift during which the fall occurred.
Time at which the fall occurred. … The location of the fall, and
If the resident had a room change within 30 days of the fall. … Whether the fall was witnessed. … If the fall was witnessed, the activity the resident was engaged in at the time of the fall.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb09logtxt.html
December 01, 2017 - Fall Response
Chapter 3. Data Collection and Analysis Using TRIPS
Chapter 4. … Record the date of any fall that occurs after entry. … Resident Name
Date entered into FMP
Fall Dates
Notes
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/putoolkit_module5_tools.docx
June 02, 2025 - Rates and Fall Prevention Practices
Measure Fall Rates
Key Indicator
Who is responsible? … Completion Date for Plan
Fall Rates (e.g., falls per 1,000 occupied bed days) are calculated … level of injury
Measure Fall Prevention Practices
Key Indicator
Who is responsible? … Completion Date for Plan
Fall risk factor assessment is performed within 24 hours of admission … Staff know definition of fall and definition of injurious fall
5C: Assessing Comprehensive
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb24.html
December 01, 2017 - Fall Response
Chapter 3. Data Collection and Analysis Using TRIPS
Chapter 4. … Falls Engineer Instructions
[Date}
[Salutations]
RE: Fall Management Program
Dear … communication of the results to primary care providers
Individualized management plans addressing fall … facility falls coordinator when one of your residents falls recurrently and/or suffers an injurious fall
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/fallpxreports.pptx
October 01, 2017 - fall was not witnessed). … Fall with major injury=1 and fall with minor injury=0
Fall with major injury=2 and fall with minor injury … =1
Fall with major injury=1 and fall with minor injury=2
Fall with major injury=2 and fall with minor … Date
Fall Time
Fall Witness
Witness Type
Witness Name
Found By
Fall Location
Position When Found
Activity … at Time of Fall
Injury Assessment Notes
Bleeding
Suspected Cause of Fall
Fall Comments
Fall Injury
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/Generic_Dashboard_Data_2024.xlsx
January 01, 2024 - Fall Other location 23,180 12.3%
Fall Outside area (i.e., grounds of this facility) 1,510 0.8%
Fall … Communication 1,967 2.2%
Fall Data 16 0.0%
Fall Environment 1,536 1.8%
Fall Human Factors 5,048 5.8% … Fall Supervisor/Support 130 0.1%
Fall Multiple 3,187 3.6%
Fall Other: Please specify 75,274 85.8% … Harm 38 1.1%
Fall Under 18 Male No Harm 1,655 47.1%
Fall Under 18 Male Severe Harm * *
Fall Under … Harm * *
Fall Under 18 Unknown No Harm 307 65.9%
Fall Under 18 Unknown Unknown Harm 34 7.3%
Fall
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/bates3-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The effect of the intervention on patient falls (dichotomized as fall/no
fall) and falls with injury … TIPS on
fall inpatient acute care fall rates and will publish the results of the evaluation elsewhere … Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit. … Dykes, P.C., et al., Fall TIPS: strategies to promote adoption and use of a fall prevention toolkit. … Dykes, P., et al., Fall TIPS: strategies to promote adoption and use of a fall prevention toolkit.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/gdmodap3a.html
October 01, 2014 - Three of every four nursing center residents fall each year. … Slide 6
Is it a fall? … Slide 10
Responding to a Fall or Near Fall
Observe and evaluate. … Slide 12
Things to Remember
Not every fall is just a fall. … Fall prevention requires active engagement.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/acute-care-long-desc.html
June 01, 2020 - About Fall TIPS. Fall T.I.P.S.: Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety. … https://www.falltips.org/about-fall-tips/ . Accessed June 11, 2020.
Fall TIPS Successes. … Fall T.I.P.S.: Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety. … Development and validation of a fall prevention knowledge test. … Pilot testing Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety): a patient-centered fall prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/npsd-chartbook-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - FALL. … FALL, by UNASSISTED OR
ASSISTED FALL. … on FALL
OBSERVED and WHO OBSERVED THE FALL. … fall?” … Fall
Intervention(s) in Place and Used to Prevent Fall
Fall Observed
Fall Observed
Medication
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February 01, 2018 - If HREC 3A or 3B is true, then HREC 3 -
Fall History is true.
24 HREC 3A (Fall Within 30
Days)
Fall … ) Fall: 31-180
Days
Postfall
Assessment or
MDS item
J1700B
Fall Date If any fall dates are within … For each fall with fall date prior to and within
30 days of fall date, count the number of
additional … Date of Fall
Fall Date Date 4/17/14 3/6/14 2/27/14 2/11/14 1/16/14 10/4/13
Fall Day Day of week Saturday … fall?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/fallspximpl-handouts.docx
June 02, 2025 - of the team regarding fall risk. … We don’t have a weekly fall risk huddle or weekly fall risk or safety meetings. … be attributed to the fall. … , location, activity just before the fall, and possible reason for the fall. … in at the time of the fall, and suspected causes of the fall.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb23.html
December 01, 2017 - Fall Response
Chapter 3. Data Collection and Analysis Using TRIPS
Chapter 4. … Falls and Fall Risk, AMDA Clinical Practice Guideline. 1998
Web Sites
Agency for Healthcare Research … Topic: Patient Safety
Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation (AQAF), AQAF Long-Term care fall prevention … Fall and injury prevention in older people living in patiential care facilities: a cluster randomized
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201804.html
July 01, 2018 - helps hospitals overcome the challenges associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a fall … Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing a hospital's … Using the toolkit, the hospital updated its fall risk assessment system to use more specific risk factors … , which enabled the registered nurses to better identify patients at greatest risk of a fall. … The AHRQ toolkit also includes guidance on ways to build internal support for a fall prevention program
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/man3.html
December 01, 2017 - with two or more falls and fall related serious injuries ( Figure 1 ). … Circumstances of the fall
Item 1 asks if the fall was witnessed or unwitnessed or if the resident … Item 3 is the activity at the time of the fall. … Item 4 is staff presence at the time of the fall. … Item 16a asks if the resident had an injury as a result of the fall.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-standardized-quality-measures.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Fall-out analysis
A fall-out analysis looks for reasons a patient who is in the denominator of a measure … These are the fall-outs. … Document possible reasons for fall-out for each patient on the
spreadsheet. … Were there other reasons for fall-out?
Step 4. … Tally how many times each cause of fall-out occurs on a tally sheet.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/handout.html
November 01, 2017 - of the team regarding fall risk. … We don’t have a weekly fall risk huddle or weekly fall risk or safety meetings. … be attributed to the fall. … , location, activity just before the fall, and possible reason for the fall. … in at the time of the fall, and suspected causes of the fall.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mcneil-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum Fall Policy Conference 2008
The National Quality … Forum
Fall Policy Conference 2008
Principal Investigator: Dwight McNeil
Team Members: S. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Grant No: 1R13HS017882-01
2008 National Quality Forum Fall … -16, 2008
Crystal City, VA
Abstract
Purpose: The National Quality Forum’s (NQF’s) 9th Annual Fall … Policy Conference, Healthcare Quality
PURPOSE
The National Quality Forum’s (NQF’s) 9th Annual Fall