Healthcare providers can use the Morse Fall Scale to assess the risk of a patient fall based on a number of safety indicators, including history of falling, secondary diagnoses, ambulatory aid, gait ...

Offering the only fall risk assessment tool validated in the electronic medical record, and a program that is a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to reduce patient falls and injuries, the HD ...

Offering the only fall risk assessment tool validated in the electronic medical record, and a program that is a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to reduce patient falls and injuries, the HD ...

A retrospective review was conducted on inpatient cancer rehabilitation patients admitted from January 2012 to February 2016. Fall frequency, degree of harm, fall circumstances, cancer type, patient's ...

For patients enrolled in the study, there were no falls over 2,211.6 patient days There were 5,010 alarms generated by the PUP socks, with only 11 false alarms (99.8% of alarms were generated by ...

After a comprehensive risk assessment and patient education, however, the practice still needs to complete the billing process. The CARE tool includes CDT billing codes. "As of January 1, we have all ...

Falls are a serious public health problem globally, particularly in acute care hospitals, where hospitalized patients are at high risk for falls and may experience adverse outcomes such as ...

Fall-related injuries are a significant cost to the US health system, making up 6% of annual Medicare spending. The one-year mortality risk in the year after suffering a hip fracture is 40%, per ...