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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool1c.docx
January 28, 2013 - Reference: Developed by Falls Toolkit Research Team based on the Ontario Agency for Health Protection … Improved fall prevention is a priority within the facility. … The facility has implemented a fall prevention policy. … Current fall prevention goals are being addressed. … There are visible role models/champions for fall prevention.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool3p.docx
January 29, 2013 - Checklist
Background: This tool can be used to monitor your progress on identifying best practices in fall prevention … Reference: Developed by Falls Toolkit Research Team.
How to use this tool: Complete the checklist. … Use this tool to ensure you have not skipped any essential steps in your fall prevention efforts. … Explore approaches to documenting and reporting results of fall risk factor assessment
Develop fall prevention
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hac-rates_2019.html
July 01, 2020 - Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Tools
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Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries from falls … Falls: 5% decrease. Obstetric events: 3% decrease. Pressure ulcers: 6% increase.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool4d.docx
January 29, 2013 - Reference: Developed by Falls Toolkit Research Team. … Use this tool to ensure you have not skipped any essential steps in your fall prevention efforts. … specific roles and responsibilities to:
Members of the Unit Team
Unit Champion
Organizing the Prevention
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool1e.docx
January 28, 2013 - Assessment
Background: The purpose of this tool is to identify resources that are available for a fall prevention … Reference: Developed by Falls Toolkit Research Team. … Use this tool to ensure that all resources needed for launching a fall prevention program are available
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/hai/hac/tools.html
March 01, 2024 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Tools
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Prevention … Universal and Targeted
Tools
Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit
CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention … Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI): Tools for Reducing CLABSI
Injuries and falls … from immobility: Preventing Falls in Hospitals
Intensive care units: Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/tools/index.html?page=2
September 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention … Date Published: June 2016
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in Hospitals … Date Published: January 2013
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module2/module2_slides_fallprev.pptx
August 24, 2017 - (Tool 2C)
Present the assessment of current fall prevention policies and procedures. … .
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Expected Outcomes
Begin to write a draft fall prevention Action Plan, tailored to your hospital … Managers
Senior manager
Quality improvement/safety/risk manager
Reference: Developed by Falls … Determine how incidence data on fall rates and fall prevention care processes will be collected. … Challenges to good practice identified at organization and unit levels
Reference: Developed by Falls
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/index.html
March 01, 2024 - The toolkit has reduced falls by 25 percent in acute care hospitals and is used in more than 100 hospitals … Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care focuses on overcoming the challenges … associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a fall prevention program. … Includes an implementation guide to help put prevention strategies into practice. … AHRQ's Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module2/module2_fall-prevention.docx
August 24, 2017 - Members who influence the areas involved in fall prevention. … ASK: Do you currently assess staff knowledge related to falls? What tools do you currently use? … current policies and practices, you have an understanding of what your hospital currently does to prevent falls … You may already have a sense of what needs to change to decrease falls. … In addition, they assessed their staff knowledge of fall prevention.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool2g.docx
January 28, 2013 - Reference: Developed by Falls Toolkit Research Team. … Use this tool to ensure you have not skipped any essential steps in your fall prevention efforts. … Necessary training and resources in place for team to get started
Assessment
Current state of fall prevention
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab16.html
December 01, 2012 - Data & Measures
Digital Healthcare Research
Education & Training
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … 17,662
23,518
18,337
Pressure Ulcer
3,322
4,088
3,865
3,029
3,557
3,496
Injurious Falls … 19,821
25,958
20,278
Pressure Ulcer
3,754
4,475
4,359
3,374
3,884
3,947
Injurious Falls … 4,695
6,310
5,297
Pressure Ulcer
1,348
1,729
1,777
1,154
1,411
1,428
Injurious Falls
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/npsd/data/spotlights.html
September 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes (PDF, 4.5 MB) examines clinical outcomes and factors … associated with falls by age and gender based on data that the NPSD received through the end of 2021
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/healthy-men/men-over-50.pdf
March 01, 2014 - Vitamin D to Avoid Falls. … If you are 65 or older
and have a history of falls, mobility problems, or
other risks for falling, … ask your doctor about
taking a vitamin D supplement to help reduce
your chances of falling. … The USPSTF is an
independent group of national experts in prevention and
evidence-based medicine.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/852.html
February 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Preventing Patient Falls Using an Evidence-Based Intervention May Reduce Costs . … Fall TIPS Program , an evidence-based fall prevention intervention, was associated with $22 million … After implementation of the Fall TIPS intervention, there was a nearly 20 percent reduction in falls
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab14b.html
February 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Tools
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Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Overall
21,956
16,765
21,455
17,068
Pressure Ulcer
3,799
3,199
3,745
3,230
Injurious Falls … Overall
24,337
18,495
23,801
18,856
Pressure Ulcer
4,200
3,634
4,114
3,703
Injurious Falls … Overall
5,797
5,112
5,808
5,048
Pressure Ulcer
1,477
1,318
1,449
1,344
Injurious Falls
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab15b.html
February 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Tools
Featured
Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Overall
21,669
17,341
20,812
17,696
Pressure Ulcer
3,481
3,488
3,458
3,512
Injurious Falls … Overall
23,918
19,140
23,031
19,550
Pressure Ulcer
3,912
3,899
3,818
3,992
Injurious Falls … Overall
5,517
5,450
5,449
5,532
Pressure Ulcer
1,283
1,527
1,280
1,578
Injurious Falls
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab16b.html
February 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Tools
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Clinicians & Providers
Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … Overall
16,590
23,347
19,328
18,994
Pressure Ulcer
3,050
4,160
3,514
3,406
Injurious Falls … Overall
18,160
25,955
21,393
21,016
Pressure Ulcer
3,478
4,542
4,009
3,629
Injurious Falls … Overall
5,039
6,194
5,874
4,811
Pressure Ulcer
1,206
1,720
1,560
1,136
Injurious Falls
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-201-asthma-section-5-table-3.pdf
February 19, 2016 - National
Asthma Education and Prevention
Program. … After training, inhaler technique falls
off with time, so checking and re-
training must be repeated … Global Strategy for Asthma
Management and Prevention. 2014.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2013-appendix.html
October 01, 2015 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Tools
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Hospitals & Health Systems
Prevention … MPSMS (2013)
Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters
9,200
0.28
Falls … MPSMS (2013)
In-Hospital Patient Falls
240,000
7.2
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI (2013) … $106,000,000
2,470
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
.185
$170,000,000
1,850
Falls