Fall Risk Assessment Tools

• Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Value: The Fall Risk Assessment  Performance Tool Worksheet created by the UNMC CAPTURE Falls Team can help you understand concepts about predictive validity of tools and guide you through calculations of these values for a fall risk assessment tool using data from your own patients.
• Example Fall Risk Assessment Tools: We do not endorse the use of any one fall risk assessment tool. A hospital might select a tool based on many factors, such as what is available in their electronic medical record, staff input, ease of completion, comprehensiveness, and predictive validity. This list of tools, compiled by the CAPTURE Falls team, provides an overview of risk factors assessed by common fall risk assessment tools and information on their published validity.
• Screening Transfers and Gait for Fall Risk: The Visual Screening of Transfers and Gait for Fall Risk Worksheet created by the UNMC CAPTURE Falls team can be used as an education tool for non-rehab staff about movement deviations that may signify lower extremity weakness and balance impairments commonly seen in patients at risk for falls. It can also be used as a checklist for assessment and documentation of these movement deviations. The presence of these deviations may indicate a need for physical therapy referral.
• Study of Osteoporotic Fracture Criteria for Frailty: The SOF Criteria for Frailty provides an objective and quick way to screen for frailty, a geriatric syndrome closely related to fall risk.

Fall Risk Assessment Education