Improvement Activities: Implementation of Fall Screening and Assessment Programs

Activity: Implementation of fall screening and assessment programs to identify patients at risk for falls and address modifiable risk factors (e.g., Clinical decision support/prompts in the electronic health record that help manage the use of medications, such as benzodiazepines, that increase fall risk).
Subcategory	Patient Safety and Practice Assessment
Weighting	Medium

Supporting Workflows and Tools

Health Guidelines can be used to identify patients at risk for falls based on previous assessments or use of medication.

Interventions for this guideline could include Flowsheet values or values from the Standard Flowsheet for Fall Risk Screening, such as the Morse Fall Scale Score.

 

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