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Clinical guidelines for fall prevention

Health care providers can help reduce their patients’ chances of falling and of suffering serious injuries like hip fractures and traumatic brain injury. Evidence-based programs are taking place in the community and agencies are working together to make it easy for you to refer your patients to those programs.

STEADI Online Clinical Training

0.1 CEU/CE, 1 CHES, 1 CNE Contact Hours, 2 CPHCE, 1 ACCME: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)

With STEADI: Empowering Healthcare Providers to Reduce Fall Risk training, you can make fall prevention a part of your clinical practice.

Continuing education is available for this free accredited course.

To obtain Continuing Education (CE), visit train.org/cdctrain, search for course number WB4310R, and follow the steps listed on the webpage. 

In coordination with the White House event, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is showcasing the continuing work to protect older adults from injury and death from falls.

  • According to the CDC's Older Adults Falls data:
    • Falls are the leading cause of injury for adults 65 and older.
    • Older adult falls are common, costly, and preventable.

To help prevent these occurrences, the CDC created the STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries) initiative.

STEADI is available online as an interactive clinical training to give health care providers the tools needed to make fall screening, assessment, and intervention part of every clinical practice serving older adults. The content is based on established clinical guidelines and proven interventions to reduce falls in older Americans so that they can stay healthy, active, and independent longer.
 

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

The Centers for Disease Control’s STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries) tool kit has materials to help healthcare providers screen, assess, and intervene to reduce fall risk among their older patients. You can download the materials, or order hard copies from CDC-INFO on Demand. 

  • Resources to help healthcare providers screen, assess, and intervene to reduce fall risk among their older patients are available on the CDC website including:
    • STEADI basics
    • clinical tools
    • functional assessments
    • medication review
    • fact sheets
    • graphics

  • Meet requirements for PQRS and Meaningful Use.
  • Qualify to earn 20 Part IV ABIM/ABFM credits.
  • Be recognized as a Violence and Injury Prevention Champion by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
     

National Falls Prevention Resource Center for Professionals
  • Visit the National Falls Prevention Resource Center for Professionals website. Housed at NCOA's Center for Healthy Aging, the National Falls Prevention Resource Center increases public awareness about the risk of falls and supports the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based fall prevention programs and strategies across the nation.