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161. Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments. | PSNet
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     September 15, 2021 - Study Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments. … Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments. … Patient falls resulting in injury are considered a never event. … In this analysis of falls within one hospital, rates and trends varied across six clinical departments … Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments.

162. Falls Prevention Self-Assessment Worksheet - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention (pdf file)
     ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/otimefallspx-implmatls.pdf
     November 02, 2017 - Are care plans developed for all residents determined to be at risk of falling? … Does your facility have a policy to assess residents after falling? … Root Cause Analysis for New Falls 5. Weekly Falls Risk Huddle 6. … Root Cause Analysis for New Falls 20. Weekly Falls Risk Huddle 21. … Worksheet for Falls Prevention Section 1: Screening for Falls Risk Section 2: Falls Prevention Plan

163. AHRQ’s Toolkit Helped Vanderbilt University Hospital Substantially Reduce Patient Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - AHRQ’s Toolkit Helped Vanderbilt University Hospital Substantially Reduce Patient Falls Search All … By June 2016, falls with injury dropped to 12 percent of all falls, down from 19 percent the previous … , falls with injury, and contributing factors. … This collaborative approach has reduced falls and lowered the rate of falls resulting in injury. … "This keeps the goal of preventing falls on everyone's radar." Ms.

164. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 20, 2016 - Clinical and environmental factors that place a patient at risk for falling postoperatively should … addition, use of certain medications may reduce a patient’s risk for postoperative hip fracture after falling … o Polypharmacy of greater than four or five medications per day can double a patient’s risk for falling … personnel follow the safety practices related to preventing postoperative hip • fracture as it relates to falling … Health Care Protocol: Prevention of falls (acute care).

165. Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention (doc file)
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     January 01, 2013 - to be aware of patient-specific areas of risk and which interventions will prevent the patient from falling … falls. … Pair up and use the scale to assess a patient in the following case study for risk of falling. … He has no recent history of falling. Because of hip pain, he has difficulty walking. … Patients were getting up to go to the toilet, and some were falling.

166. 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/strat.html
     October 01, 2017 - Falls Prevention Menu of Implementation Strategies   Existing New Falls High Risk Report … Root Cause Analysis for New Falls     5. Weekly Falls Risk Huddle     6. … Weekly Falls Risk or Safety Meetings     Quarterly Summary of Falls Risk Factors by Unit or … Root Cause Analysis for New Falls     4. Weekly Falls Risk Huddle     5. … Weekly Falls Risk or Safety Meetings     Return to Falls Prevention

167. Module 3. Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Understand the risk factors for falls. Understand which residents are at high risk of falling. … Understand how falls can be prevented. … This module aims to help participants know the risk factors contributing to falls, ways to prevent falls … What are his risk factors for falling? … times nursing assistants recognize that a resident is doing something that puts him or her at risk of falling

168. New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2015 - New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls For older adults, falls are serious … These falls can cause bone fractures, disability, and even death. … Among people 75 and older, falls are far more likely to cause admissions into a long term care facility … Reduce patient risk and learn about falls through these useful resources: Falls Among Older Adults … Fall Risk Assessment Process to Tailor Interventions in Acute Care The Falls Management Program: A

169. ‘Fear of falling’: how hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed. | PSNet
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     October 26, 2011 - Newspaper/Magazine Article ‘Fear of falling’: how hospitals do even more harm by … Citation Text: ‘Fear of falling’: how hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed. … Patient falls  with harm are a common sentinel event. … This news story discusses the unintended consequences of efforts to avoid system penalties for patient falls … Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: ‘Fear of falling

170. NPSD Data Spotlight - Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2023 - NPSD Data Spotlight - Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes Falls: Associated Factors and … Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes Page | ii Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical … (8,810 out of 109,097 falls). … Notably, half of all falls among all patients under 18 occurred in patients with no known risk of falling … Fainting or losing consciousness (287 / 4,866; 5.9%) and Falling out of a chair/bed while sitting/sleeping

171. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

172. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

173. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

174. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

175. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     teamstepps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

176. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

177. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

178. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

179. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     healthcare411.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.

180. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
     patientregistry.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_tools.docx
     March 01, 2013 - Preventing in-facility falls. … severe injuries can trigger a fear of falling, anxiety, distress, depression, and reduced physical activity … analysis of four fall prevention programs in 6,478 participants found a 31 percent decrease in the rate of falling … Defining a fall and reasons for falling: comparisons among the views of seniors, health care providers … Preventing accidental falls among older people in long stay units.