Inpatient clinical care teams generally use tools such as bed alarms, gait belts, closer nursing station placement and more to prevent patient falls. But those interventions can hinder clinical ...

Table 1 presents a summary of risk factors for falls identified from studies undertaken in people with cognitive impairment and dementia. In presenting this information, we have categorized risk ...

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 prolonged ...

Every second, someone somewhere in the United States takes a devastating fall, contributing to a massive $50 billion annual healthcare burden, a figure set to double by 2030 as the baby boomer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly more patients from the injurious fall group had all but one of the studied prescription classes ...

The risk of falling and having fall-related problems increases with age. To help reduce this risk, UAB Medicine’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Falls Clinic was created to help patients ...

Background: Nonaccidental falls are often the result of a combination of factors including cardiovascular disorders such as orthostatic hypotension and unspecified cardiac arrhythmias. The objective ...

For older adults, minor falls can pose major threats, as their risk of death after a fall has tripled in the U.S. over the last 30 years. Some experts believe that certain medications — a category ...