ArticleFrontiers in public health2021
Patient Perspectives on Hospital Falls Prevention Education.
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- Systematic Review of Patients' Perceptions of the Contributing Factors That Led to Falling in Acute Care Hospitals During Their Hospitalisation.Nursing open · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Age and ageing · 2022Pooled it
- A stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial to assess efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a care-bundle to prevent falls in older hospitalised patients.Age and ageing · 2024Trial
- Enhancing fall risk awareness among high fall-risk inpatients: a best practice implementation project.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- A five-year retrospective study of patient falls in a tertiary hospital: frequency, characteristics, and contributing factors.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Exploring the influence of hospital context on acute care physical therapy fall prevention practice: A qualitative study.Physiotherapy theory and practice · 2025Article
- Consumer perspectives on implementing falls prevention and management in rehabilitation hospitals: protocol for a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Patient safety is our business! Staff perspectives on implementing hospital falls prevention education.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Inpatients' experiences of falls: A qualitative meta-synthesis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Review
- The knowledge, attitude, and practice toward fall prevention of parturients in the obstetric inpatient wards: a comparative cross-sectional study between nurses and parturients.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Effect of structured nurse-patient conversation on preventing falls among patients in an acute care hospital: A mixed study.International journal of nursing sciences · 2024Article
- Considerations across multiple stakeholder groups when implementing fall prevention programs in the acute hospital setting: a qualitative study.Age and ageing · 2024Article
- Implementing falls prevention patient education in hospitals - older people's views on barriers and enablers.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Root cause analysis and strategies for reducing falls among inpatients in healthcare facilities: A narrative review.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Assessing the Effectiveness of a Non-Punitive Fall Prevention Program.HCA healthcare journal of medicine · 2024Article
- Falls prevention is more than just promoting physical health: evaluation of the group-based, out-patient prevention program 'Staying safe and active in old age - falls prevention'.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Prevention of Falls in Parkinson's Disease: Guidelines and Gaps.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Review
- Risk stratification for early and late falls in acute care settings.Journal of clinical nursing · 2023Article
- Interprofessional education to implement patient falls education in hospitals: Lessons learned.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Falls as the result of interplay between nurses, patient and the environment: Using text-mining to uncover how and why falls happen.International journal of nursing sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Hospital falls remain an intractable problem worldwide and patient education is one approach to falls mitigation. Although educating patients can help their understanding of risks and empower them with prevention strategies, patient experiences of hospital falls education are poorly understood. This study aimed to understand the perspectives and preferences of hospitalized patients about falls prevention education. Three focus groups were conducted in Australian hospitals. A phenomenological approach was used to explore patient perspectives and data were analyzed thematically. The focus groups revealed that most people did not realize their own risk of falling whilst an inpatient. Experiences of falls prevention education were inconsistent and sometimes linked to beliefs that falls were not relevant to them because they were being cared for in hospital. Other barriers to falls mitigation included poor patient knowledge about hospital falls risk and inconsistencies in the delivery of falls prevention education. A strong theme was that individualized, consistent education, and small interactive groups were helpful.
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