Injuries from falls and immobility

EQIC helps hospitals implement evidence-based strategies to prevent and reduce the incidence of inpatient falls and associated injuries. EQIC programming focuses on identifying patients at high risk for falls and injury and ensuring that everyone has access to fall prevention care. EQIC’s falls reduction work also includes the multidisciplinary efforts of progressive mobility. Focusing on a patient’s functional ability and overcoming any barriers toward increasing patient activity and mobility improves patient outcomes.

Assessments

Hospital tools

• Falls surveillance tool - EQIC
• RCIP fall prevention assessment - EQIC
• Injurious fall prevention organizational self-assessment questionnaire - Veterans Health Administration

Patient risk assessment tools

• Morse fall scale for identifying fall risk factors - AHRQ
• Using the MFS risk factors to plan interventions to prevent falls - AHRQ
• STRATIFY scale for identifying fall risk factors - AHRQ

Toolkits and guidelines

• Preventing falls in hospitals toolkit and training program - AHRQ
• Fall TIPS: A patient-centered fall prevention toolkit - AHRQ
• Fall risk reduction toolkit: A companion to CDC's STEADI toolkit - ASCP-NCOA
• Falls toolkit - VA National Center for Patient Safety
• Activity and mobility promotion toolkit - Johns Hopkins Medicine