- Feet/Footwear Screening Tool: The Screening Tool for Feet/Footwear Related Influences on Fall Risk can be used to support interprofessional healthcare providers in efforts to reduce a patient’s fall risk through assessment and intervention of feet and footwear. The link above takes you to the original research article that describes the development of the tool. A copy of the tool itself can be found in the article’s supplementary material.
Quality Improvement Tools to Apply to Feet and Footwear Assessment and Intervention
- 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.