Fall Prevention Guidelines

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care assists health services to reduce the number of falls, and the resulting patient harm, through a number of national initiatives. This site includes Australia’s National Guidelines: Preventing Falls and Harm From Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals, Residential Aged Care Facilities and Community Care 2009. The guidelines provide a consistent national basis for falls prevention.

Hospitals

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Guidelines Guidebook Implementation guide

Residential aged care facilities

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Guidelines Guidebook Implementation guide

Community care

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Guidelines Guidebook

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare Factsheets

Hospitals
Support staff 
Patients and carers
Nurses
Health managers
Doctors
Allied Health Professionals
Residential aged care facilities
Support staff
Nurses
Health managers
Doctors
Allied Health Professionals
Residents
Community care
Nurses
Doctors
Allied Health Professionals