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Healthcare staff's concern may be compounded by fear of complaints and litigation. Even falls without injury cause distress to patients and careers, creating a downward spiral where fear of falling leads to reduced mobility. ДЇalls can have serious consequences 30вЂ“50% of falls in hospitals result in some injury, with fractures occurring in 1вЂ“3%, often leading to very poor outcomes and greatly increased lengths of stay. Typical whole-hospital studies report rates of between 3 and 5 falls per 1,000 occupied bed days (OBDs), representing over 250,000 falls annually in English hospitals and over 1 million falls in US hospitals. Older people, fall prevention, quality improvement, injury BackgroundДЇalls are a major patient safety issue for hospitals, reflecting the existing vulnerability of older patients with multiple health problems to falling, compounded by risks from their acute illness, their treatment and an unfamiliar environment. In FallSafe units, staff certain falls had been reported increased from 60 to 77%.Д¬onclusion: introducing evidence-based care bundles of multifactorial assessment and intervention using a quality improvement approach resulted in improved delivery of multifactorial assessment and intervention and significant reductions in fall rates, but not in injurious fall rates. No significant changes in injurious fall rate were found in FallSafe units (ARR 0.86, 95% CI 0.71вЂ“1.03 P = 0.11), or controls (ARR 0.88, 95% CI 0.72вЂ“1.08 P = 0.13).

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Significant reductions in reported fall rate were found in FallSafe units (adjusted rate ratio (ARR) 0.75, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.68вЂ“0.84 P < 0.001) in the 12 months following full implementation but not in control units (ARR 0.91, 95% CI 0.81вЂ“1.03 P = 0.13). Twelve-month moving average of reported fall rates showed a consistent downward trend in FallSafe units but not controls. Results: in FallSafe units, delivery of seven care bundle components significantly improved most improvements were sustained after active project support was withdrawn. Data on falls were collected from local risk management systems for 24 months, and data on under-reporting through staff surveys. Methods: data on delivery of falls prevention processes were collected at baseline and for 18 months from nine FallSafe units and nine control units. This paper describes an extended evaluation of the FallSafe quality improvement project, which presented key components of multifactorial assessment and intervention as a care bundle. Systematic review suggests multifactorial assessment and intervention can reduce falls by 20вЂ“30%, but large-scale studies of implementation are few. Background: inpatient falls are a major patient safety issue causing distress, injury and death.