Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) has a recommended practice entitled “Observation Following Falls in Acute Care: Older People” that is available via login with your Emory Healthcare login; search for the document by title in JBI, click “Display Results,” and then click “JBI Database PDF”: http://pid.emory.edu/h78zp
There are a variety of relevant post-falls assessment tools online:
1. Royal Devon Exeter National Health Service Foundation Trust pdf: https://tinyurl.com/yansp8t4
2. Intermountain Healthcare pdf: https://tinyurl.com/ydgxar6n
3. A Veterans Affairs Word document: https://tinyurl.com/ybvfoq2z
4. Ohio State University Medical Center pdf: https://tinyurl.com/y6usjgk8
5. South Western Ambulance Service National Health Service pdf: https://tinyurl.com/y8xqoxod
Please follow these instructions to access 8 relevant articles in PubMed.
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then copy and paste this link into your browser address bar: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/52782984/public/
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference, and you will see a Find it at Emory to the right of it which will provide availability for full text. If you are not able to access full text, you may submit citation(s) to Ask a Librarian. Library staff will get article(s) for you and email them to you.