The Effect of a Translating Research Into Practice Intervention to Promote Use of Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Interventions in Hospitalized Adults: A Prospective Pre Post Implementation Study in the U.S.

Falls are a major public health problem internationally. Many hospitals have implemented fall risk assessment tools, but few have implemented interventions to mitigate patient-specific fall risks. Little research has been done to examine the effect of implementing evidence-based fall prevention interventions to mitigate patient-specific fall risk factors in hospitalized adults.

Source: Applied Nursing Research : ANR - December 21, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Marita G. Titler, Paul Conlon, Margaret A. Reynolds, Robert Ripley, Alex Tsodikov, Deleise S. Wilson, Mary Montie Source Type: research