APA Health Care and Life Sciences

Fall prevention

Submit a summary of six of your articles on the discussion board. Discuss one strength and one weakness to each of these six articles on why the article may or may not provide sufficient evidence for your practice change.

Practice Change: Fall Prevention Improvement

1. Abbasi, M., Daniali, S. S. M., & Hazrati, M. (2017). Lifestyle of fallen elderly patients referred to Isfahan hospitals. Iran Journal of Nursing, 30(107), 20-31.
Haddad, Y. K., Bergen, G., & Florence, C. (2019).

2. Marrero, J., Fortinsky, R. H., Kuchel, G. A., & Robison, J. (2019). Risk factors for falls among older adults following transition from nursing home to the community. Medical careresearch and review, 76(1), 73-88.

3. Meyer, C., Renehan, E., Batchelor, F., Said, C., Haines, T., Elliott, R., & Goeman, D. (2018). Falls not a priority: insights on discharging older people, admitted to hospital for a fall, back to the community. Australian journal of primary health, 24(1), 66-73.

4. Pitchai, P., Dedhia, H. B., Bhandari, N., Krishnan, D., D’Souza, N. R. J., & Bellara, J. M. (2019). Prevalence, risk factors, circumstances for falls, and level of functional independence among geriatric population-A descriptive study. Indian journal of public health, 63(1), 21.

5. Sarges, N. D. A., Santos, M. I. P. D. O., & Chaves, E. C. (2017). Evaluation of the safety of hospitalized older adults as for the risk of falls. Revista Brasileira de enfermagem, 70(4), 860-867.

6. Schellenberg, M., Inaba, K., Chen, J., Bardes, J. M., Crow, E., Lam, L., … & Demetriades, D. (2019). Falls in the bathroom: a mechanism of injury for all ages. Journal of surgical research, 234, 283-286.

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