Articles are arranged by topic.

Engagement of nurses in fall prevention efforts; these articles cover a variety of techniques

Colon Emeric, Cathleen S, et al. “CONNECT for Better Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes: Results from a Pilot Intervention Study.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 61.12 (2013):2150-2159.

Lea, Emma, et al. “Beyond the ‘tick and flick’: facilitating best practice falls prevention through an action research approach.” Journal of clinical nursing 21.13-14 (2012):1896-1905.

Barker, Anna, et al. “The 6-PACK programme to decrease fall-related injuries in acute hospitals: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.” Injury prevention 17.4 (2011):e5-e5.

Bonuel, Nena, et al. “Best practice fall prevention strategies. CATCH!” Critical care nursing quarterly 34.2 (2011):154-158.

Healey, Frances. “A guide on how to prevent falls injury in hospitals.” Nursing older people 22.9 (2010):16-22.

Koh, S L, et al. “Impact of a fall prevention programme in acute hospital settings in Singapore.” Singapore medical journal 50.4 (2009):425-432.

Koh, Serena S L, et al. “Nurses’ perceived barriers to the implementation of a Fall Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline in Singapore hospitals.” BMC health services research 8(2008):105-105.

Ireland, Sandra, et al. “The real world journey of implementing fall prevention best practices in three acute care hospitals: a case study.” Worldviews on evidence-based nursing 10.2 (2013):95-103.

Saint, Sanjay, et al. “Introducing the patient safety professional: why, what, who, how, and where?” Journal of patient safety 7.4 (2011):175-180.

Tzeng, Huey-Ming. “Nurses’ caring attitude: fall prevention program implementation as an example of its importance.” Nursing forum 46.3 (2011):137-145.

Unruh, Lynn, ManishaAgrawal, and SusanHassmiller. “The business case for transforming care at the bedside among the “TCAB 10” and lessons learned.” Nursing administration quarterly 35.2 (2011):97-109.

Stetler, C B, et al. “Integration of evidence into practice and the change process: fall prevention program as a model.” Outcomes management for nursing practice 3.3 (1999):102-111.

Dean, Erin. “Reducing falls among older people in hospital.” Nursing older people 24.5 (2012):16-16, 19.

Rask, Kimberly, et al. “Implementation and evaluation of a nursing home fall management program.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 55.3 (2007):342-349.

Audit

Audit criteria

Chapman, Joanne, Deborah Bach, and Kristiina HyrkÃs. “Testing the sensitivity, specificity and feasibility of four falls risk assessment tools in a clinical setting.” Journal of nursing management 19.1 (2011):133-142.

Poe, Stephanie S, et al. “The Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool: postimplementation evaluation.” Journal of nursing care quality 22.4 (2007):293-298.

Perell, K L, et al. “Fall risk assessment measures: an analytic review.” The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 56.12 (2001):M761-M766.

Oliver, D, et al. “Development and evaluation of evidence based risk assessment tool (STRATIFY) to predict which elderly inpatients will fall: case-control and cohort studies.” BMJ. British medical journal 315.7115 (1997):1049-1053.

Taylor, Jo A, et al. “A model quality improvement program for the management of falls in nursing homes.” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 8.3 Suppl (2007):S26-S36.

Milisen, Koen, AnneliesGeeraerts, and EddyDejaeger. “Use of a fall prevention practice guideline for community-dwelling older persons at risk for falling: a feasibility study.” Gerontology 55.2 (2009):169-178.

Wong Shee, Annkarin, BevPhillips, and KeithHill. “Comparison of two fall risk assessment tools (FRATs) targeting falls prevention in sub-acute care.” Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 55.3 (2012):653-659.

Koh, Serena Siew Lin, et al. “Fall incidence and fall prevention practices at acute care hospitals in Singapore: a retrospective audit.” Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 13.5 (2007):722-727.

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