{"pk":12674,"title":"Fall Prevention Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Survey of Emergency Providers","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n Falls are a frequent reason geriatric patients visit the emergency department (ED). To help providers, the Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines were created to establish a standard of care for geriatric patients in the ED. We conducted a survey of emergency providers to assess 1) their knowledge of fall epidemiology and the geriatric ED guidelines; 2) their current ED practice for geriatric fall patients; and 3) their willingness to conduct fall-prevention interventions.\nMethods: \nWe conducted an anonymous survey of emergency providers including attending physicians, residents, and physician assistants at a single, urban, Level 1 trauma, tertiary referral hospital in the northeast United States.\nResults: \nWe had a response rate of 75% (102/136). The majority of providers felt that all geriatric patients should undergo screening for fall risk factors (84%, 86/102), and most (76%, 77/102) answered that all geriatric patients screened and at risk for falls should have an intervention performed. While most (80%, 82/102) answered that geriatric falls prevention was very important, providers were not willing to spend much time on screening or interventions. Less than half (44%, 45/102) were willing to spend 2-5 minutes on a fall risk assessment and prevention, while 46% (47/102) were willing to spend less than 2 minutes.\nConclusion:\n Emergency providers understand the importance of geriatric fall prevention but lack knowledge of which patients to screen and are not willing to spend more than a few minutes on screening for fall interventions.  Future studies must take into account provider knowledge and willingness to intervene.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"geriatric"}],"section":"Geriatrics","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69m1p4fd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kathleen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Davenport","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of North Carolina Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cameron","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Margot","middle_name":"","last_name":"Samson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Central Florida, College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jiraporn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lekand","name_suffix":"","institution":"Navamindradhiraj University, Geriatric Emergency Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Shan","middle_name":"Woo","last_name":"Liu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-04-10T20:33:16Z","date_accepted":"2019-04-10T20:33:16Z","date_published":"2020-07-10T19:45:32Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/12674/galley/6701/download/"}]}