At a recent White House Conference on Aging, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further promoted STEADI — Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries, according to an article on the Hospital and Health Networks website article.
"There are a ton of different interventions and yet, despite of all of this, we still have falls,” Tejal Gandhi, president and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation, said. "It's been a thorny problem because, even with all of the tools at our disposal, falls still happen, perhaps at less frequency than in the past, but they are still happening.”
For instance, Harvard Medical School have listed six low- or no-cost modifications that can be made to patients' homes to help avoid falls. Those changes led to 26 percent fewer injuries from falls, one 2014 study determined.
Another recent study found that using electronic health record data could help hospitals to predict a patient's risk of falling.
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