Evolution of compliance within a fall prevention program.
When evaluating the effectiveness of a fall prevention program, it is useful to first determine whether the program is being uniformly administered. Members of a medical-surgical unit's Quality Assurance/Product Improvement Team studied both processes as well as outcomes over a two-year implementation of a fall prevention program. They discovered that initial attempts at implementation underestimated the quantity of resources necessary to ensure full implementation of the program. This article chronicles the series of audits and program modifications that eventually brought about success to this unit.
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Stanford Health Services, CA, USA.
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D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods