Southern medical journal
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Southern medical journal · Feb 2025
Increasing Communication about Fall Risk and Prevention between Internal Medicine Residents and Older Adults.
More than one in four older adults fall yearly, but fewer than half inform their doctors. As such, medical trainees must gain experience assessing fall risk in older adults. Studies exploring how often residents initiate these assessments and which interventions effectively increase this frequency are needed. The objective of our study was to determine whether a reminder survey increases the frequency and proportion of resident-initiated fall risk and prevention discussions between Internal Medicine residents and older adults. ⋯ Exposure to the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries fall risk tool is a promising reminder intervention to increase the frequency and proportion of resident-initiated fall risk and prevention discussions; however, larger multisite studies are needed to assess the statistical significance of these findings.