A multicomponent fall prevention strategy reduces falls at an academic medical center.
France D, Slayton J, Moore S, et al. A Multicomponent Fall Prevention Strategy Reduces Falls at an Academic Medical Center. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2017;43(9). doi:10.1016/j.jcjq.2017.04.006.
Fall prevention remains a patient safety priority. This pre–post study of a multimodal quality improvement intervention in three hospital units demonstrated a decrease in the number of falls. However, the lack of concurrent controls makes it unclear whether this change was attributable to the intervention.