Patient and Staff Insights on Digital Care Pathways for Patients With Low Back Pain in the Emergency Department: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Back pain is a huge global problem. For some people, the pain is so severe that they feel the need to present to an emergency department (ED). Our aim was to explore patient and staff perspectives for the development of a digital care pathway (DCP) for people with back pain who have presented to ED, including acceptability, barriers and facilitators.

Preventing hospital falls: feasibility of care workforce redesign to optimise patient falls education.

Objective: To examine the feasibility of using allied health assistants to deliver patient falls prevention education within 48 h after hospital admission.

Design And Setting: Feasibility study with hospital patients randomly allocated to usual care or usual care plus additional patient falls prevention education delivered by supervised allied health assistants using an evidence-based scripted conversation and educational pamphlet.

Participants: (i) allied health assistants and (ii) patients admitted to participating hospital wards over a 20-week period.

Implementing Patient Falls Education in Hospitals: A Mixed-Methods Trial.

Patient education is key to preventing hospital falls yet is inconsistently implemented by health professionals. A mixed methods study was conducted involving a ward-based evaluation of patients receiving education from health professionals using a scripted conversation guide with a falls prevention brochure, followed by semi-structured qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of health professionals involved in delivering the intervention. Over five weeks, 37 patients consented to surveys (intervention = 27; control = 10).

Interprofessional education to implement patient falls education in hospitals: Lessons learned.

Aim: The aim of this study was to design, deliver and evaluate an interprofessional education programme for healthcare professionals on how to implement a modified version of the safe recovery programme to prevent falls in hospitalized patients.

Design: Mixed methods design incorporating pre- and post education surveys and individual semi-structured interviews.

Methods: Thirty-four health professional participants attended a 1-h face-to-face or Zoom® interprofessional education session to learn how to deliver an evidence-based patient falls prevention education strategy, the modified Safe Recovery Programme.

Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Falls remain a common and debilitating problem in hospitals worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of falls prevention interventions on falls rates and the risk of falling in hospital.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Healthcare professional perspectives on barriers and enablers to falls prevention education: A qualitative study.

In hospitals, patient falls prevention education is frequently delivered by nurses and allied health professionals. Hospital falls rates remain high globally, despite the many systems and approaches that attempt to mitigate falling. The aim of this study was to investigate health professional views on the enablers and barriers to providing patient falls education in hospitals.

Dance Is an Accessible Physical Activity for People with Parkinson's Disease.

Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of face-to-face, digital, and virtual modes of dancing for people living with Parkinson's disease (PD).

Design: Systematic review informed by Cochrane and PRIMSA guidelines. Seven electronic databases were searched: AMED, Cochrane, PEDro, CINHAL, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and MEDLINE.

The suitability and utility of the pain and movement reasoning model for physiotherapy: A qualitative study.

Introduction: The Pain and Movement Reasoning Model is a tool to assist clinical reasoning. It was created for physiotherapists to use in musculoskeletal outpatient clinics but may be appropriate in other clinical contexts. The Model has also been used in physiotherapy education.

Patient Perspectives on Hospital Falls Prevention Education.

Hospital falls remain an intractable problem worldwide and patient education is one approach to falls mitigation. Although educating patients can help their understanding of risks and empower them with prevention strategies, patient experiences of hospital falls education are poorly understood. This study aimed to understand the perspectives and preferences of hospitalized patients about falls prevention education.

Benefits and risks of non-slip socks in hospitals: a rapid review.

Background: Non-slip socks are sometimes used in an attempt to prevent falls in hospitals despite limited evidence of benefit. We critique the current literature on their risks, benefits and effects.

Methods: A rapid review was conducted following the Cochrane Rapid Review Methods Group Guidelines.

Hospital falls prevention with patient education: a scoping review.

Background: Hospital falls remain a frequent and debilitating problem worldwide. Most hospital falls prevention strategies have targeted clinician education, environmental modifications, assistive devices, hospital systems and medication reviews. The role that patients can play in preventing falls whilst in hospital has received less attention.

Boxing for Parkinson's Disease: Has Implementation Accelerated Beyond Current Evidence?

Exercise and physical activity are argued to promote neural plasticity in Parkinson's disease (PD), with potential to slow disease progression. Boxing for PD is rapidly growing in popularity. (i) To evaluate evidence on benefits and risks of boxing exercises for people living with PD and (ii) to appraise websites for evidence of global implementation of this intervention.

Educating hospital patients to prevent falls: protocol for a scoping review.

Introduction: Falls prevention in hospitals is an ongoing challenge worldwide. Despite a wide variety of recommended falls mitigation strategies, few have strong evidence for effectiveness in reducing falls and accompanying injuries. Patient education programmes that promote engagement and enable people to understand their heightened falls risk while hospitalised are one approach.

Repeating pulmonary rehabilitation: prevalence, predictors and outcomes.

Background And Objective: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a cornerstone of care in chronic respiratory diseases; yet its benefits diminish over time. Repeating PR may be beneficial; however, little is known about the characteristics and outcomes of repeaters. This study aimed to establish the proportion of repeaters, identify characteristics that predict repetition and compare the magnitude of benefits achieved between initial and subsequent programmes.