Fall Risk Assessments in SCI rehabilitation | |
 ■Re-format fall risk assessment tools to encourage critical thinking and individualized plans | |
 ■Consider a patient’s behavioral risk factors to predict fall risk | |
Fall Prevention Procedures in SCI rehabilitation | |
 ■No blame reporting of fall incidents | |
 ■Consider strategies to minimize injuries from falls | |
 ■Establish consensus on documenting therapy falls that do not result in an injury and streamline reporting process | |
 ■Adapt existing fall prevention strategies to increase applicability in SCI rehabilitation | |
 ■Track falls during community passes to identify areas for additional fall prevention education | |
 ■Re-design processes that have poor compliance | |
Fall Prevention Training/Education in SCI rehabilitation | |
 ■Include SCI-specific fall risk factors when delivering fall prevention education | |
 ■Prioritize fall prevention education in inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation | |
 ■Educate patients with SCI on hospital and community fall risk factors | |
 ■Include an informed risk taking and/or self-management approach to fall prevention training | |
 ■Create a formal dialogue for fall prevention education | |
 ■Ensure clinicians have the appropriate skills to deliver fall prevention education | |
Post-fall Procedure in SCI rehabilitation | |
 ■Conduct formal reviews of fall trends and integrate findings into fall prevention education | |
 ■Share fall trends with staff and encourage discussions on how to prevent similar occurrences | |
 ■Identify the patients’ perspectives on contributing factors to falls | |
 ■Leadership to continue encouraging a culture of learning from falls | |
 ■Outline a clear process for clinicians to follow if a patient refuses the post-fall assessment |