Strategies to improve the patient safety outcome indicator: preventing or reducing falls.
In response to our agency exceeding the national benchmark rates for "Emergent Care for Injury Caused by Fall or Accident at Home," Alliance Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice developed a program to assess, prevent, or decrease the risk of falls in our mostly elderly and/or chronically ill population. Using the Tinetti Assessment score as the starting point, we developed a program of assessment, education, and follow-up that significantly reduced the number of patients requiring care for fall-related injuries.
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Lisanne
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Home Care Services, Alliance Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice, 885 South Sawburg Road, Suite 106, Alliance, OH 44601, USA. lbright@avna.org [corrected]
D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D001107:Architectural Accessibility; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000150:complications; D005684:Gait; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D009820:Ohio; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*