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The tools that comprise the HD Falls Program fall into 3 components: Predict: Hester Davis Falls Risk Assessment Scale (HDS)© The most accurate fall risk assessment tool available to clinicians and the only falls scoring tool to be validated in the EHR. Read More. Prevent: HD Falls Care Plan©
The HD Falls ProgramTM is a comprehensive, individualized falls management program, comprised of all the evidence-based tools and services needed to reduce patient falls and fall with injury across the continuum of care.
The HDS is the fall assessment tool that helps predict which patient is at risk of a fall or fall injury. The HDS has the highest sensitivity of any fall risk tool. Learn more about the validation of HDS .
18 Φεβ 2009 · improvement practice change. The practice-focused question addressed a Magnet model implementation of a standardized, system-wide, evidence-based Hester Davis Scale (HDS) fall risk assessment and intervention tool and the impact on the nursing-sensitive indicators of patient fall rates and fall rates with injury. Successful implementation and
Hospitals use fall risk analytical tools during patient admission to evaluate the chance of a patient falling. However, patient fall evaluation tools are universally used across all patient populations without research being done to ascertain their suitability or precision for application to unique patient groups.
Accurate instruments to predict the risk of falling are paramount in identifying the correct patients in need of fall prevention measures. The purpose of this study was to prospectively validate the Hester Davis Scale (HDS) for fall risk assessment in an acute care setting in the South Central United States.
Purpose:The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of the Hester Davis Scale (HDS), Section GG, and facility fall risk scores to predict patients who fall during inpatient rehabilitation. Design: This study was an observational quality improvement project.
