Orthostatic Hypotension Tools

• Measuring Orthostatic Blood Pressure:  Instructions for Measuring Orthostatic Blood Pressure created by the Centers for Disease Control walks health care professionals through the steps to assess whether a patient has orthostatic hypotension as a risk factor for falling 
• Patient Education Brochure: Postural Hypotension: What it is and How to Manage It (link to English and Spanish versions) created by the Centers for Disease Control can be downloaded and printed to support patient education about orthostatic hypotension.

Quality Improvement Tools to Apply to Assessment of Orthostatic Blood Pressure

• 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.