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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-3-30
pubmed:abstractText
A fall is the most reported safety incident in inpatients and occurs in all adult clinical areas. There is growing interest in prevention strategies and, as part of this, in risk assessment tools. These may be useful if the aim is to flag up common risk factors or causes of falls and prompt interventions that are actually delivered. Tools that claim to predict patients' risk of falling as 'high' or 'low' do not work well and may provide false reassurance that 'something is being done'. Falls prevention should focus on a wider range of actions at the level of patients and across organisations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0954-7762
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
105
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
18-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Falls risk prediction tools for hospital inpatients: do they work?
pubmed:affiliation
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article