A Study on the Falls Prevention System in an Acute Hospital  

Oleh:

Yoshida, Masato ; Sano, Masataka ; Hamada, Chikuma

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: 12th ANQ Congress in Singapore, 5-8 Agustus 2014, page 1-6.
Topik: Preventing falls; Assessment score sheet; Inpatients’ fall risk; probability of fall; importance of daily assessment
Fulltext: HC2-2.1-P0265.pdf (400.24KB)

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Preventing falls is one of the clinical problem and cause patients’ significant problem, since it may cause serious injuries such as an abrasion and fractures. An assessment score sheet for inpatients is one of the falls prevention system. In this paper, we focus on sheet for inpatients’ fall risk. In this paper, we validate the appropriateness of the falls estimate in patients hospitalizing. We reassessed the score of 84 cases which consist of 42 sets of the actual patient data for patients who have fallen and 42 sets of the data for those who haven’t from 7 wards from Oct 2013. The results showed 4 items as greatly influence the falls. With these items, we calculated fall probabilities of each patients, and compared them of patients who have fallen and those who haven’t. Then, we couldn’t recognize the difference between two groups since the number of people whose probability of fall is more than 60 percent are 34 cases in patients who fallen and 24 cases who didn’t fall. From the result of the analysis, we discuss it is not enough that nurses estimate the patient’s fall risk only using the assessment in patients at the time of hospitalizing. Instead, the importance of daily assessment is shown

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