Citation

Yuan JR, Kelly J. Home Healthc. Nurse 2006; 24(2): 103-111.

Affiliation

Abington Memorial Hospital Home Care, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16474247

Abstract

Home care clinicians face a daunting challenge in attempting to prevent falls among the frail, elderly population. This article outlines how one agency used evidence-based strategies to develop a program that identified patients at risk for falls and intervened with the goal of decreasing injury from falls by using a multidisciplinary approach.