- Beers Criteria®: The American Geriatrics Society 2023 Updated AGS Beers Criteria® provides an overview of evidence-based recommendations about drug-related problems and adverse events in older adults, many of which contribute to fall risk.
- STOPPFall: The STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk) was developed by a 24-member panel of geriatric experts from the European Geriatric Medicine Society Task and Finish Group on FRIDs (fall risk increasing drugs) using a Delphi process. This tool can support health care providers in identifying and deprescribing fall risk increasing drugs when performing a medication review.
- Fall Risk Checklist: The Fall Risk Checklist from the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and National Council on Aging is a comprehensive checklist of fall risk factors that includes sections on medication self-management and assessment.
- STEADI-Rx: The STEADI Pharmacy Care (STEADI-Rx) webpage from the Centers for Disease Control contains multiple resources for pharmacists to prevent falls, highlighting the importance of collaboration between healthcare providers and pharmacists to manage medication-related risks.
Quality Improvement Tools to Apply to Assessment and Intervention of Medications
- Aim Statement Worksheet.* The Aim Statement Worksheet from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a resource that can be used to help you create an aim statement for an improvement project.
- Quality Improvement Project Measures Worksheet.* The Quality Improvement Project Measures Worksheet from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a resource that can be used to help you develop outcome, process, and balancing measures for an improvement project.
- Quality Improvement Project Change Concepts Worksheet.* The Quality Improvement Project Change Concepts Worksheet from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a resource that can be used to help you explore and select from change concepts that might be relevant to an improvement project.
- Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet.* The PDSA Worksheet from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a resource that can be used to guide documentation of PDSA cycles to test changes within an improvement project.
*The resources available from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement can be downloaded for free from their website, but ask for your first and last name, organization, and email address to download.