Individual care plans reduce falls and broken hips in New Zealand hospitals

New Zealand is believed to be the first country in the world to achieve a national reduction in the number of in-hospital falls that result in a broken hip, a paper published in the New Zealand Medical Journal shows.1

A nationwide initiative by the Health Quality and Safety Commission reduced the number of in-hospital falls that resulted in a fractured neck of femur by 40% from December 2014 to June 2016. In that time the number of broken or fractured hips resulting from in-hospital falls decreased …