Preventing Future Falls in Older Adult ED Patients: Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of a Novel Automated Screening and Referral Intervention - Assessing Outcomes From Medical Records and Medicare Claims Data

Summary

The purpose of this retrospective cohort study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an EHR-based clinical decision support system (CDS) for automatically screening older adult ED patients for risk of future falls and providing ED clinicians opportunity to place referrals orders to the UW Health Mobility and Falls Clinic for those at highest risk prior to discharge. This CDS tool has already been implemented at the UW Hospital ED, and as a QI initiative will be implemented in a staged process at two other UW Health-affiliated emergency departments (The American Center and Swedish American Hospital).

Description

Eligibility

Age range

65+ years

Sex

All

Healthy volunteers

No

Interventions

• Other
  Falls-Risk Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tool

  CDS in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to screen patients at high-risk for future falls enabling referrals to the UW Health Mobility and Falls clinic.

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