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International Initiatives
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This website provides a summary of the issues, strategies and tools to define and measure falls, identify risks, and target prevention strategies. Each organization's fall prevention program is likely to be in a different stage of development, whether initiating a new program or expanding or improving an existing program. The content on this site has been organized into sections that focus on specific aspects of a comprehensive falls prevention program.
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The Victorian Quality Council (Australia) developed, piloted, and currently uses these guidelines to minimize the risk of falls and falls injuries in acute public facilities. The guidelines were developed to provide a framework (model) and supporting resources to support falls prevention activity in hospital and residential care settings.
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The Joanna Briggs Institute was established in 1995 as an initiative of Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide in Australia. The Institute arose from the recognition of a need for a collaborative approach to the evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources. This resource links to the falls section, which lists a collection of best practices for preventing falls.
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This website provides a variety of falls prevention resources, organized by component of the nursing process.
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Fall Prevention in Older Adults, a federally-funded grant project based at Temple University, provides a variety of online resources. Information on this site is targeted toward older adults, health care practitioners and students, and health educators.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Injury Prevention has produced a number of patient education fact sheets, graphs, and brochures about preventing falls for older adults.
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ECRI, a nonprofit health services research firm and Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization, has assembled a variety of resources on falls prevention, including guidelines for establishing a falls prevention program.
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The Falls Toolkit provides information on: Designing a falls prevention and management program, effective interventions for high-risk fall patients, implementing hip protectors for high-risk fall patients, and educating patients, families and staff on falls and fall injury prevention.
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