Enhancing referral processes within an integrated fall prevention pathway for older people: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Multifactorial interventions, which involve assessing an individual's risk of falling and providing treatment or onward referral, require coordination across settings. Using a mixed-methods design, we aimed to develop a process map to examine onward referral pathways following falls risk assessment in primary care.

Setting

Primary care fall risk assessment clinics in the South of Ireland.

Participants

Focus groups using participatory mapping techniques with primary care staff (public health nurses (PHNs), physiotherapists (PT),and occupational therapists (OT)) were conducted to plot the processes and onward referral pathways at each clinic (n=5).

Methods

Focus groups were analysed in NVivo V.12 using inductive thematic analysis. Routine administrativ

SUBMITTER: Flannery C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9396121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature