Pro-active fall-risk management is mandatory to sustain in hospital-fall prevention in older patients - validation of the LUCAS fall-risk screening in 2,337 patients

Conclusions: In-hospital fall prevention including systematic use of the LUCAS fall-risk screening reduced the proportion of fallers compared to that expected from the patients’ fall-risk profile. Raw proportions of fallers are not suitable to evaluate fall prevention in hospital because of variable prevalence of patients’ fall-risk factors over time. Continuous communication, education and training is needed to sustain in-hospital falls prevention.
Source: The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging - Category: Nutrition Source Type: research