Reducing medical-surgical inpatient falls and injuries with videos, icons and alarms.

Background: Inpatient falls and subsequent injuries are among the most common hospital-acquired conditions with few effective prevention methods.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of patient education videos and fall prevention visual signalling icons when added to bed exit alarms in improving acutely hospitalised medical-surgical inpatient fall and injury rates.

Design: Performance improvement study with historic control.