The University Hospital has addressed the issue of prevention of falls in hospital with some goals: empowerment of practitioners, patients and their families, development of a tool for classification of the patient to the risk of falls, development of an instrument of signal detection and analysis ofthe fall. Were defined: (a) a scale for assessing risk falls, to be completed upon acceptance by the nurse, made up of several indicators with a score corresponding to each of them, can help to define the patient: low risk, medium risk and high risk, (b) a statement of measures to be implemented depending on the severity of the risk falls, (c) a reportingformfor all fall divided into two sections: nursing and medical (d) a brochure to be delivered at the time acceptance in the department that contains behavioral suggestions for patients and families/caregivers, useful for the prevention of falls. Experimentation of the project took place during the months of October-December 2009 in three UU.
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