ArticleThe Journal of nursing administration2009
Why do patients in acute care hospitals fall? Can falls be prevented?
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- 'It promoted a positive culture around falls prevention': staff response to a patient education programme-a qualitative evaluation.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- 'My independent streak may get in the way': how older adults respond to falls prevention education in hospital.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- Optimizing physical activity among older adults post trauma: Overcoming system and patient challenges.International journal of orthopaedic and trauma nursing · 2015Trial
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- Association of Fall Timing and Location With Clinical Characteristics in Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Teamwork between registered nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel in acute care settings: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Review
- Associations of hospital unit occupancy with inpatient falls and fall-risk assessment completion: a retrospective cohort study.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2025Article
- The U-shaped association between hospitalization time and fall incidence in inpatients using publicly available data: A cross-sectional study in Japan.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Effect of a fall prevention strategy for the older patients: A quasi-experimental study.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Risk factors for falls in hospitalized patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2022Review
- Use of a perceived efficacy tool to evaluate the FallTIPS program.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Fall prevention implementation strategies in use at 60 United States hospitals: a descriptive study.BMJ quality & safety · 2020Article
- Evaluation of a Patient-Centered Fall-Prevention Tool Kit to Reduce Falls and Injuries: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Identification of important factors in an inpatient fall risk prediction model to improve the quality of care using EHR and electronic administrative data: A machine-learning approach.International journal of medical informatics · 2020Article
- Fall Prevention Decision Making of Acute Care Registered Nurses.The Journal of nursing administration · 2020Article
- Prioritizing coordination of primary health care.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2020Article
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- Hospital falls prevention with patient education: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Best practices for data visualization: creating and evaluating a report for an evidence-based fall prevention program.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Article
- Factors influencing patient falls in a private hospital group in the Cape Metropole of the Western Cape.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2020Review
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Abstract
objectiveObtain the views of nurses and assistants as to why patients in acute care hospitals fall.
backgroundDespite a large quantitative evidence base for guiding fall risk assessment and not needing highly technical, scarce, or expensive equipment to prevent falls, falls are serious problems in hospitals.
methodsBasic content analysis methods were used to interpret descriptive data from 4 focus groups with nurses (n = 23) and 4 with assistants (n = 19). A 2-person consensus approach was used for analysis.
resultsPositive and negative components of 6 concepts-patient report, information access, signage, environment, teamwork, and involving patient/family-formed 2 core categories: knowledge/ communication and capability/actions that are facilitators or barriers, respectively, to preventing falls.
conclusionTwo conditions are required to reduce patient falls. A patient care plan including current and accurate fall risk status with associated tailored and feasible interventions needs to be easily and immediately accessible to all stakeholders (entire healthcare team, patients, and family). Second, stakeholders must use that information plus their own knowledge and skills and patient and hospital resources to carry out the plan.
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