Preventing hospital falls: feasibility of care workforce redesign to optimise patient falls education.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the feasibility of using allied health assistants to deliver patient falls prevention education within 48 h after hospital admission.

Design and setting

Feasibility study with hospital patients randomly allocated to usual care or usual care plus additional patient falls prevention education delivered by supervised allied health assistants using an evidence-based scripted conversation and educational pamphlet.

Participants

(i) allied health assistants and (ii) patients admitted to participating hospital wards over a 20-week period.

Outcomes

(i) feasibility of allied health assistant delivery of patient education; (ii) hospital falls per 1,000 bed days; (iii) injurious falls; (iv) number of falls requiring transfer to an acute medical facilit

SUBMITTER: Morris ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811524 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature