Trial reportAge and ageing2024
Preventing hospital falls: feasibility of care workforce redesign to optimise patient falls education.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Standards for Hospital Falls Prevention and Management: An International Comparative Analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Fall prevention education among older hospital inpatients: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Patients' Perceptions of the Contributing Factors That Led to Falling in Acute Care Hospitals During Their Hospitalisation.Nursing open · 2025Pooled it
- Hospital falls clinical practice guidelines: a global analysis and systematic review.Age and ageing · 2024Pooled it
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- From information to action- a phase-based analysis of patient engagement in inpatient fall prevention: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- Fractures After Inpatient Falls in a Tertiary Rehabilitation Hospital: Associated Factors, Performance of Fall-Risk Scores, and Orthopaedic Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Engaging With Hospital Staff to Develop Implementation Strategies For Delivering a Patient Falls Prevention Education Program Using a World Café.Western journal of nursing research · 2026Article
- Hospital Fall Prevention Practices and Implementation Strategies: A Multisite Observational Study.Journal of patient safety · 2026Article
- Selecting and tailoring implementation strategies for deimplementing fall prevention alarms in US hospitals: a group concept mapping study.BMJ quality & safety · 2026Article
- Perspectives on Fall Prevention Among Older Patients and Healthcare Providers in UAE Hospitals: A Qualitative Study.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Article
- Reference standard for the prevention and management of hospital falls: a multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study.BMJ open · 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
- Factors Influencing Nursing Interns' Engagement in Fall Prevention Activities in Saudi Arabia.Nursing open · 2025Article
- Features of effective hospital fall prevention trials: an intervention component analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Implementing falls prevention patient education in hospitals - older people's views on barriers and enablers.BMC nursing · 2024Article
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15 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the feasibility of using allied health assistants to deliver patient falls prevention education within 48 h after hospital admission. DESIGN AND
settingFeasibility study with hospital patients randomly allocated to usual care or usual care plus additional patient falls prevention education delivered by supervised allied health assistants using an evidence-based scripted conversation and educational pamphlet.
participants(i) allied health assistants and (ii) patients admitted to participating hospital wards over a 20-week period. OUTCOMES: (i) feasibility of allied health assistant delivery of patient education; (ii) hospital falls per 1,000 bed days; (iii) injurious falls; (iv) number of falls requiring transfer to an acute medical facility.
results541 patients participated (median age 81 years); 270 control group and 271 experimental group. Allied health assistants (n = 12) delivered scripted education sessions to 254 patients in the experimental group, 97% within 24 h after admission. There were 32 falls in the control group and 22 in the experimental group. The falls rate was 8.07 falls per 1,000 bed days in the control group and 5.69 falls per 1,000 bed days for the experimental group (incidence rate ratio = 0.66 (95% CI 0.32, 1.36; P = 0.26)). There were 2.02 injurious falls per 1,000 bed days for the control group and 1.03 for the experimental group. Nine falls (7 control, 2 experimental) required transfer to an acute facility. No adverse events were attributable to the experimental group intervention.
conclusionsIt is feasible and of benefit to supplement usual care with patient education delivered by allied health assistants.
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