Explanation of the Articles’ Findings Relevant to the PICOT

Question Johnson (2015) investigated the hourly rounding strategy’s feasibility and effectiveness in preventing and minimizing fall incidents among patients admitted to a trauma setting. According to the researcher, when using the hourly rounding strategy, clinicians visit patients every hour during their stay in healthcare facilities to proactively address their needs, identify, and attend to issues that may cause them to fall. He found that although hourly rounding is a feasible strategy for preventing patient falls, nurse-related factors, such as inadequate staffing and time and the lack of enthusiasm to conduct hourly rounds, limit its effectiveness in averting and reducing falls among hospitalized patients. In contrast, Subermaniam et al. (2017) examined bed absence sensors’ effectiveness in detecting older patients’ bed exits and preventing falls during their stay in an East Asian healthcare center. They found that bed absence detectors effectively detect bed exit episodes among elderly patients, alert nurses about patients' departure from the bed, and prevent falls among hospitalized geriatric patients.