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Citation
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Wilson MA, Hacker Teper M, Sinno M, Kohlberger K, Nuseir D, Chan A, Palomera-Dinglasan K, Leon L, Donaldson D, Taher A. J. Nurs. Care Qual. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub. |
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Abstract
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BACKGROUND: Inpatient falls with harm have severe implications on patients and the health care system.
PURPOSE: We implemented a zero harm approach to falls prevention, which aimed to reduce falls with injury by 25% within 1 year.
METHODS: We implemented a multifaceted and multidisciplinary quality improvement falls prevention strategy that included facilitating organization-wide education, adopting the Morse Fall Risk Assessment tool, displaying real-time unit-specific falls rates, and implementing a transparent root-cause analysis process after falls. Our outcome measure was falls with injury per 1000 patient-days.
RESULTS: We observed a decrease in the rate of patient falls with injury from 2.03 (baseline period) to 1.12 (1 year later) per 1000 patient-days. We also observed increases in awareness around falls prevention and patient safety incident reporting.
CONCLUSIONS: Our zero harm approach reduced falls with injury while improving our patient safety culture.
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