Quick Screening: Used to identify and sort individuals into high or low fall-risk
categories.
• Comprehensive: Used to identify specific risk profiles of individuals in order to create
individualized targeted fall prevention/injury reduction plans of care based on
identified risks.
Although there is no universally utilized, validated fall risk assessment tool for all settings, and
no validated environmental hazard checklists, Figure 5 outlines suggestions for screening tools
and approaches for certain fall-risk screening parameters which are outlined in Figure 4, the
adapted BBSE MODEL Fall-related risk factor chart . These factors are known to have a strong
association to fall and fall-injury.36 37The following examples of tools have been either validated or are in use in various healthcare
settings: