The postpartum patient is generally an independent healthy woman of childbearing age:
their hospitalization experience is focused on the birth of a new infant.
frank,lane.and Hokanson(2009)
recognized the disconnect between the traditional fall risk assessment tools and the postpartum patients.
Using the Morse fall Scale and a Modified Alderete Score.Frank et al. developed and implemented the Post Epidural fall Risk Assessment Score (PEFRAS).the PEFRAS was designed specifically for postepidural.postpartum patients.The validity and reliability of PEFRAS have not yet been established.but this is the first published attempt to address this specialized population.