Talking about falls: a qualitative exploration of spoken communication of patients fall risks in hospitals and implications for multifactorial approaches to fall prevention

Conclusion To support hospitals in implementing multifactorial, multidisciplinary fall prevention, we recommend: (1) focusing on patients’ individual risk factors and actions to address them (a ‘why?’ rather than a ‘who’ approach); (2) where not possible to avoid ‘high risk’ categorisations, employing ‘hybrid’ communication which emphasises actions to modify individual risk factors, as well as risk level; (3) challenging assumptions about generic interventions to identify what individual patients need; and (4) timing meetings to enable staff from different disciplines to participate.
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Original research Source Type: research