Quality Control Procedures

Slip and Falls within Nursing Home Residence: Chart Audit

1.) Nursing homes has recognized the need reduce its slip and fall rate within residents.

2.) Measure: Number of slip/ falls per week (hitting the ground)

3.) Patient Population: Residence within assisted living facility

4.) Sample Size: Patients who has only been a resident for 30 days or less

5.) Audit Tools:

Residence Slip and Fall Audit

Date of review

Patient ID

Auditor

Inclusion Standard:

Residence enrolled within the last 30 days as of 9/03/11 Y N

Residence hospitalized during 2011 Y N

Exclusion Standard:

None

Proof of fall (check one):

 Records of slip/ fall in record of hospital stay

 No records of slip/ fall

Residence Falls Audit

Name M R # Age Fall Y/N No Fall Y/N

6.) Collect Data:12 new patients between August 3- September 3, 2011

7.) Summary of Results: 50% patients has fallen, 50% patients has fallen more than once

8.) Analyze and Apply Results: Nursing homes should provide beside/ nurse's aides accommodation for patients at risk for slip and falls, also reducing the use of sedative or hypnotics within the elderly during the nights (patientsafety 2005).

The quality improvement model that is to be followed measures how often and well a patients' care is or isn't. Chart audits for quality improvement promotes various data sources for quality improvement such as the patients survey, discharge (end of service), billing, claims, along with the employees' feedback (patientsafetyed 2005). Quality improvement can be described as a small scale cycle of interventions that are connected to the assessment, with the goal in order to improve the patients' care process, and the efficiency of