Intervention to systematize fall risk assessment and prevention in older hospitalized adults: a mixed methods study – BMC Geriatrics
Background Fall-prevention interventions are efficient but resource-requiring and should target persons at higher risk of falls. We need to ensure that fall risk is systematically assessed in everyday practice. We conducted a quality improvement (QI) intervention to systematize fall risk assessment and prevention in older adults hospitalized on general internal medicine wards. We evaluated the efficacy of the intervention in a pre-post intervention study and assessed its feasibility and acceptability through a mixed methods process evaluation, which results are reported in here. Methods The QI intervention was conducted between 09/2022 and 10/2023 and targeted the nursing staff and residents in two tertiary hospitals of two different language and cultural regions of Switzerland. The intervention comprised an oral presentation, an e-learning, and reminder quizzes. We conducted a process evaluation including 25 interviews and a survey sent to all participants to assess feasibility and ac
