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81. 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

82. A Clinical Decision Support Tool for Preventing Falls | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - A Clinical Decision Support Tool for Preventing Falls Theme: Optimizing Care Delivery for … Falls can have devastating health consequences for older adults but are not often discussed in primary … Fall prevention is possible, but older adults who are at the highest risk of falling need to receive … because falls can be caused by different factors, like the effects of certain medications. … Findings into Diverse Primary Care Practices (ASPIRE)—supports PCPs in identifying older adults at risk of falling

83. In Conversation With… Ann L. Hendrich, RN, PhD | PSNet
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    February 26, 2025 - But the majority of injurious patient falls have clear intrinsic risk factors. … 18 holes of golf daily as there are falling. … When surgical patients come back, nearly all of them are going to be high risk for falling. … I've seen everything from falling stars to falling leaves to big red signs. … As a policy strategy, do you think falls should have been on that list?

84. 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).

85. ‘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

86. Final Progress Report: An Intervention to Reduce Falls Among Adults with Intellectual Disability (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - receiving services is at least as likely to fall as the population over age 65, with about 1 in 3 falling … falls, and difficulty ambulating. … , as determined by falls risk screening and documented rates of falls. … a 6-month period; 473 falls were recorded among participants---a rate of 51 falls per 100 people-- … Mobility (ambulating inside and outside) Fall History including baseline for falls: number of falls

87. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 23, 2020 - Improving hospital safety culture for falls prevention through interdisciplinary health education. … Improving hospital safety culture for falls prevention through interdisciplinary health education. … - health-education Patient falls are an ongoing source of preventable harm. … This article describes the implementation of an innovative employee-based education program for falls … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/falling-through-crack-bedrails

88. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Falls Prevention Self-Assessment … designed to help staff review how they currently identify residents who have experienced a change in falls … It is expected that the Facilitator will work with the Change Team to identify gaps in current falls … Falls Prevention Plan Section 3: Investigations/Root Cause Analysis of Resident Falls Section 4: … Falls Prevention Self-Assessment Worksheet Return to Falls Prevention

89. 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/intro.html
    November 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Introduction On-Time Falls … informed the development of On-Time Falls Prevention . … Table 1 lists reports and implementation materials for falls prevention. … On-Time Falls Prevention: Reports and Implementation Materials Reports Falls High-Risk … Return to Falls Prevention

90. 75Ftpgw4Rz-3Tdmqpstvdg (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2012 - on the timed Get-Up-and-Go test (3, 4), also identify persons at in- creased risk for falling. … A history of falling is most com- monly used to identify increased risk for future falling and has generally … who have previously fallen and fear falling again. … None of the 4 studies of vision correction reported a reduced risk for falling. … after 12 months and a reduced fear of falling (22).

91. Task Force Issues Draft Recommendation Statement on Vitamin D and Calcium to Prevent Falls and Fractures in Older Adults (pdf file)
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    January 21, 2025 - The Task Force also recommends against taking vitamin D to prevent falls in this group. … older, this recommendation is focused on falls and fractures in older adults. … “Preventing older adults from falling and breaking a bone is important to their ongoing health and independence … wellness, so the Task Force looked at the evidence on whether supplements could help older adults avoid falling … who are at increased risk of falling.”

92. Medication assessment: one determinant of falls risk. | PSNet
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    July 24, 2013 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Medication assessment: one determinant of falls risk. … Citation Text: Medication assessment: one determinant of falls risk. PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. … system, this article describes which medication classes were most frequently associated with patient falls … Cite Citation Citation Text: Medication assessment: one determinant of falls … The Topic Risk Managers Quality and Safety Professionals Medication Safety Patient Falls

93. On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - On-Time Falls Prevention Overview Materials Packet Samples of four types of reports are provided … here: On-Time Falls High-Risk Report . … Quarterly Summary of Falls Risk Factors by Unit or Facility . … On-Time Falls High-Risk Report Sample Falls High-Risk Report Unit: ______________________________ … Quarterly Summary of Falls Risk Factors by Unit or Facility Sample Quarterly Summary of Falls Risk

94. Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    June 04, 2024 - Stratified by age, 25.9% of adults aged 65 to 74 years re- ported falling and 9.3% reported fall-related … injuries; 28.5% of adults aged 75 to 84 years reported falling and 10.6% reported fall- related injuries … ; and 33.8% of adults 85 years or older reported falling and 13.9% reported fall-related injuries.1 In … /health/falls-and-falls- prevention). … /health/falls-and-falls-prevention).

95. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 02, 2020 - Evaluation of a patient-centered fall-prevention tool kit to reduce falls and injuries: a nonrandomized … Evaluation of a patient-centered fall-prevention tool kit to reduce falls and injuries: a nonrandomized … - nonrandomized Patient falls are an ongoing source of preventable harm, yet mitigating the fall risk … falls with injuries. … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-acute-care-hospitals-randomized-trial https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/falling-through-crack-bedrails

96. Primary care–relevant interventions to prevent falling in older adults: a systematic evidence review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. | PSNet
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    May 27, 2020 - Review Primary care–relevant interventions to prevent falling in older adults: a … Primary care-relevant interventions to prevent falling in older adults: a systematic evidence review … Falls are a major source of preventable morbidity and mortality for elderly patients in both the ambulatory … However, efforts to prevent falls have been limited by a lack of high quality evidence supporting specific … Primary care-relevant interventions to prevent falling in older adults: a systematic evidence review

97. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/reportguide.html
    November 01, 2017 - : On-Time Falls Prevention Facilitator Training Introduction to Falls Reports Say: In this session … of Falls Risk Factors report. … Falls With Major Injury . … Falls With Minor Injury . … Total Falls. The system computes the total number of falls for the report period.

98. Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities. | PSNet
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    December 23, 2016 - Sentinel Event Alerts Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities … Citation Text: Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities. … Falls in the hospital are common, particularly among elderly patients , and falls resulting in serious … The Joint Commission recommends several strategies for preventing falls, including identifying patients … These strategies have been successfully applied and shown to reduce falls in high-quality studies .

99. Granite Falls Municipal Hospital & Manor | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Granite Falls Municipal Hospital & Manor HIT Strategic Plan of SW Minnesota

100. Appendix C. Case Study and Program Examples | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Falls Engineer Instructions On This Page Falls Management Program Case Study Discussion … Falls Assessment completed and discussed with falls team and family. … P is falling? What was the response of the staff member who found her? … resident into the Falls Management Program. … Step Six—Complete Falls Assessment A Falls Assessment should be completed by the nurse along with a