Challenges
- Falls are one of the most commonly reported patient safety incidents in the hospital setting (1)
- 84.8% of falls happen unwitnessed (2)
- 27% of falls happen when a patient tries to leave the bed (3)
- £2,600 for patient fall (4)
Solutions
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(1) LeLaurin JH, Shorr RI. Preventing Falls in Hospitalized Patients: State of the Science. Clin Geriatr Med. 2019 May;35(2):273-283. doi: 10.1016/j.cger.2019.01.007. Epub 2019 Mar 1. PMID: 30929888; PMCID: PMC6446937.
(2) Staggs VS, Mion LC, Shorr RI. Assisted and unassisted falls: different events, different outcomes, different implications for quality of hospital care. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014 Aug;40(8):358-64. doi: 10.1016/ s1553-7250(14)40047-3. PMID: 25208441; PMCID: PMC4276137.
(3) Jurásková, D. PATIENT FALL INJURIES DURING THEIR HOSPITALISATION – HEALTH CARE INDICATOR. Thomayer University Hospital. 2003.
(4) The CSP. Regulator reveals 250,000 falls were reported in England’s NHS last year. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. [Online] 2017. Cited: 25 Nov 2022 https://www. csp.org.uk/news/2017-07-26-regulator-reveals-250000-falls-were-reported-englands-nhs-last-year.