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181. Resources by Type of Harm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2024 - to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care and improving their fall … AHRQ Fall TIPS: A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit This resource consists of a formal risk assessment … program focus on overcoming the challenges associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a fall … prevention program. … prevention.

182. Fallpxtool3B (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool3b.docx
     January 01, 2006 - Scheduled Rounding Protocol Background: Hourly rounds are an opportunity to ensure that universal fall … These rounds integrate fall prevention activities with the rest of a patient’s care. … For example, components of the fall risk factor assessment can be added, such as a brief mental status … protocol can be used by staff nurses, nursing assistants, and the unit manager to ensure that universal fall

183. NPSD Data Spotlight - Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/spotlights/spotlight-falls-rev.pdf
     March 01, 2023 - - related injuries.3 Newer evidence on fall prevention is based on elderly patients in residential … often shorter and the diverse organizational structures of hospitals impose unique challenges to prevention … prevention and intervention strategies in hospitals. … (DE201) ■ Type of Injury as a Result of Fall (DE204) ■ Patient Activity Prior to Fall (DE207) ■ Risk … Activity Prior to Fall Risk Assessment Prior to Fall Risk Factor(s) Prior to Fall Conclusions

184. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/monthly.html
     October 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Electronic Reports Monthly … 7 7 0 27 0 0 0 Table 7 (continued)   Day of Week Shift Other Fall … Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Days Evenings Nights Room Change Within 30 Days of Fall … Date Total Residents Who Fell Total Residents With >1 Fall Total Falls Unit A # falls

185. Fallpxtool5A (doc file)
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     January 29, 2013 - Postfall Assessment for Root Cause Analysis” to develop a template to be filled out when reporting a fall … investigations recorded When patients are reported as having x rays or other investigations after a fall … Environmental factors Buzzer/bell available within reach before fall Highlight whether there is an … First fall this admission or repeat fall Balance resources between preventing initial falls and secondary … prevention.

186. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - prevention approaches in U.S. acute care hospitals. … Hospital fall prevention: a systematic review of implementation, components, adherence, and effectiveness … R Microsimulation of financial impact of demand surge on hospitals: the H1N1 influenza pandemic of fall … Microsimulation of financial impact of demand surge on hospitals: the H1N1 influenza pandemic of fall … Impact of the fall 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic on US hospitals.

187. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2012 - Keyword or Topic Topics - Any - Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention … toolkit focuses on overcoming the challenges associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a fall … prevention program in hospitals. … toolkit assists nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care and improving their fall

188. Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention

189. Fallpxtool5B (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool5b.docx
     January 29, 2013 - 5B: Assessing Fall Prevention Care Processes Background: This sample protocol illustrates how to evaluate … whether fall prevention care processes are occurring as they should be. … Available at: www.rcplondon.ac.uk/resources/falls-prevention-resources. … This tool should be used to determine whether your hospital unit is carrying out its fall prevention

190. Impact of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Tools: Challenge Competition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - for Improving Quality of Care was instrumental in guiding the creation of an initiative entitled "Fall … Initially focused on two medical-telemetry units and eventually expanding to include additional units, fall … prevention compliance audits have taken place each Friday. … The "Fall Free Friday" activities resulted in a 31% decrease in acute care falls from 4th quarter 2022

191. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Routine fall prevention training programs are not as effective as expected. … prevention. … The authors constructed a knowledge base of fall events by combining expert-reviewed fall prevention … prevention tool. … prevention.

192. Mississippi Hospital Reduces Patient Falls by 25 Percent Using AHRQ Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - “There had been some confusion as to whether identifying patients as ‘low fall risk’ was actually the … include bedside commodes, welcome signs in each room from the nurse reminding patients to “call, don’t fall … Topic(s): Healthcare Costs, Quality of Care, Outcomes, Patient Safety, Prevention

193. Final Progress Report: Call Light Responsiveness and Effect on Inpatient Falls and Patient Perceptions (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - and injurious fall rates. … Hospital and nursing executives should consider strategizing fall and injurious fall prevention efforts … fall prevention efforts by aiming for a decrease in staff response time to call lights. … Falls and consequent injuries in hospitalized patients: effects of an interdisciplinary falls prevention … Chapter 8-Safety Practice 33, Falls prevention. [10] American Nurses Association (ANA).

194. Learning and Performance Objectives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Module 3: Falls Prevention and Management Learning and Performance Objectives Previous Page … Next Page Table of Contents Module 3: Falls Prevention and Management Learning and Performance

195. Fallpxtool3O (doc file)
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     January 01, 2008 - to investigate each fall. … PATIENT/WITNESS DESCRIPTION OF FALL: 1.1. Can you remember anything about your fall? … Did anyone witness the fall? … What were you doing at the time of the fall? … Prior to fall, were fall prevention measures in place?

196. Final Progress Report: Producing Evidence: Coordination within a Multiteam System Makes Healthcare Safer (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Panel on Falls Prevention … Guideline for the prevention of falls in older persons. … Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: A systematic review. … Pragmatic, cluster randomized trial of a policy to introduce low-low beds to hospital wards for the prevention … Hospital fall prevention: A systematic review of implementation, components, adherence, and effectiveness

197. Final Progress Report: Producing Evidence: Coordination within a Multiteam System Makes Healthcare Safer (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/24630-Jones-report.pdf
     November 15, 2017 - Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Panel on Falls Prevention … Guideline for the prevention of falls in older persons. … Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: A systematic review. … Pragmatic, cluster randomized trial of a policy to introduce low-low beds to hospital wards for the prevention … Hospital fall prevention: A systematic review of implementation, components, adherence, and effectiveness

198. A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce Falls in a Major Cancer Center (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Kline_32.pdf
     March 03, 2008 - of the most important safety threats to our patients and initiated a performance improvement falls prevention … Interventions for patients assessed as instrument and falls prevention interventions were adopted … We believe that if we demonstrate through our actions that patient safety and prevention of patient … Evidence-based falls prevention: A study guide for nurses. Marblehead, MA: HCPro; 2004. 2. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Falls among older adults: An overview.

199. Falls and Injury | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2018 - to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care and improving their fall … Improving Quality of Care Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall

200. Federal, State Agencies Implement AHRQ Research on Disease Self-Management in 16 States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - according to Nancy Whitelaw, PhD, Director of the AoA's National Resource Center on Evidence-Based Prevention … In the fall of 2005, she approached Atlantic Philanthropies with the idea of putting a CDSMP demonstration … AoA and other HHS partners prepare states for the adoption of CDSMP and other evidence-based disease prevention … programs," says Donald Grantt, Program Specialist and leader of AoA's Evidence-Based Disease Prevention … In the fall of 2006, 16 states received funds to develop CDMSP and other disease-prevention programs.