Falls in hospitalized patients are a pressing patient safety concern, but there is a limited body of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of commonly used fall prevention interventions in hospitals. This article reviews common study designs and the evidence for various hospital fall prevention interventions.

Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. Fall prevention involves managing a patient's underlying fall risk factors and optimizing the hospital's physical design and environment. This toolkit focuses on overcoming the challenges associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a fall prevention program.

Falls in hospitals can be prevented with evidence-based patient education. Health professional education about falls prevention can also reduce the rate of falls and fall-related injuries. Significant falls reduction in hospitals did not occur with bed …

What are the risk factors for inpatient falls, and how can we prevent them? What is the main finding of this study? Our narrative review discusses various prevention methods, including alarms and sitters, video monitoring systems, and sensor technologies.

Inpatient falls are complex but preventable adverse events that can result in patient harm, negatively affect patient outcomes, and result in increased health care costs. These falls increase morbidity and injuries and prolong hospitalizations, increasing health care costs and leading to worsening outcomes for patients.

Falls are a common and devastating complication of hospital and long-term care, particularly in older adults. Epidemiologic studies have found that falls occur at a rate of 3–5 per 1000 bed-days, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates that 700,000 to 1 million hospitalized patients fall each year.

Fall TIPS is a nurse-led, evidence-based fall prevention intervention that uses bedside tools to communicate patient-specific risk factors for falls and uses a tailored prevention plan. The toolkit provides care team members with the information they need to routinely engage in the fall-prevention process.

Predominantly, multifactorial interventions are used to prevent patient falls. Education and rehabilitation are common themes in studies with statistically significant results. The second article presents a guide to implementing a quality improvement project around hospital falls. A 10-step approach to Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles is described.

2025年2月13日 · Inpatient falls in this study were defined using the US National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) criteria set by the American Nursing Association. Our research group has previously described the detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria applied in this study (Cho et al. 2019). Near-miss cases were excluded since most hospitals in ...

Inpatient fall rates range from 1.7 to 25 falls per 1,000 patient days, depending on the care area, with geropsychiatric patients having the highest risk. 14–18 Extrapolated hospital fall statistics indicate that the overall risk of a patient falling in the acute care setting is approximately 1.9 to 3 percent of all hospitalizations. 16–18 ...