Falls Prevention
Falls are critical issues in healthcare safety: A fall — from a minor slip off a chair to a major fall onto the floor — can cause injury, disability or even death. Almost 50% of long-term care residents experience falls, and one in three of those who fall develop serious injuries.
Article
Taking Aim at Fall Injury Adverse Events: Best Practices and Organizational Change 
Patricia O’Connor et al., Healthcare Quarterly 9, (sp):43-49. McGill University Health Centre describes its experience in implementing a falls prevention best practice initiative. 
Video
Speak Up: Reduce your risk of falling
The Joint Commission, 2011. Speak Up is the Joint Commission’s award-winning patient safety program, designed to encourage patients to “speak up” about their healthcare. This short, animated video shows how simple changes and precautions can prevent falls, both in the home and in healthcare settings.
Falls Prevention: Building the Foundations for Patient Safety. A Self Learning Package 
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2007. This self-learning package for healthcare providers outlines best practices for patient fall prevention.
Falls Facilitated Learning Series
Canadian Patient Safety Institute. The Institute’s Safer Healthcare Now! faculty offer support and guidance in implementing patient safety improvement projects.
IHI Improvement Map: Falls Prevention
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), The IHI Improvement Map is an interactive tool that helps hospital leaders in the United States improve quality outcomes by guiding their improvement efforts.
Reducing Falls and Injury from Falls
Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2010. The Institute’s Safer Healthcare Now! program’s Getting Started Kit includes falls-related tools, resources and experience.
Residents First Road Map to Falls Prevention
Residents First, May 2010. This change package is a step-by-step guide to reducing falls in long-term care homes.
Best Practices Toolkit: Falls prevention and management
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2005. This resource helps long-term care homes implement the Prevention of Falls and Fall Injuries in the Older Adult Best Practice Guideline.
Evidence Based Practice Tools: Falls Prevention and Management
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA), May 2011. These tools guide falls prevention and management programs in acute care facilities, long-term care homes and community services across the WRHA.
