Fall TIPS Phase 1 Trial

The Center for Nursing Excellence

Fall TIPS Phase 1 Trial: Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative.

Fall TIPS Phase 1 Trial Registration at ClinicalTrials.Gov

Fall TIPS Phase 1 Publications

  1. Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Hurley A, Lipsitz S, Benoit A, Chang F, Meltzer S, Tsurikova R, Zuyov L, Middleton B. Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2010 Nov 3; 304(17):1912-8. View in: PubMed

  2. Dykes PC, Carroll D, McColgan K, Hurley AC, Lipsitz SR, Colombo L, Zuyev L, Middleton B. Scales for assessing self-efficacy of nurses and assistants for preventing falls. J Adv Nurs. 2010 Nov 15. View in: PubMed

  3. Zuyev L, Benoit AN, Chang FY, Dykes PC. Tailored Prevention of Inpatient Falls: Development and Usability Testing of the Fall TIPS Toolkit. Comput Inform Nurs. 2010 Oct 21. View in: PubMed

  4. Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Hurley A, Gersh-Zaremski R, Kennedy A, Kurowski J, Tierney K, Benoit A, Chang F, Lipsitz S, Pang J, Tsurkova R, Zuyov L, Middleton B. Fall TIPS: Strategies to Promote Adoption and Use of a Fall Prevention Toolkit. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2009; 2009:153-7. View in: PubMed

  5. Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Hurley AC, Benoit A, Middleton B. Why do patients in acute care hospitals fall? Can falls be prevented? J Nurs Adm. 2009 Jun; 39(6):299-304. View in: PubMed

  6. Carroll DL, Dykes PC, Hurley AC. Patients' perspectives of falling while in an acute care hospital and suggestions for prevention. Appl Nurs Res. 2010 Nov; 23(4):238-41. View in: PubMed

  7. Hurley AC, Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Dykes JS, Middleton B. Fall TIP: validation of icons to communicate fall risk status and tailored interventions to prevent patient falls. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009; 146:455-9. View in: PubMed

  8. Dykes PC, Hurey AC, Lipsitz S. Preventing Falls in Acute Care Hospitals - Reply. 2011: 305(7):671-672. View in JAMA

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