Validity of tools for assessing the risk of falls in patients
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17110%2F17%3AA1801NUI" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17110/17:A1801NUI - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0021" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0021</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0021" target="_blank" >10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0021</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Validity of tools for assessing the risk of falls in patients
Original language description
The aims were to analyze studies determining the validity of tools assessing the risk of falls in adult inpatients and to define a suitable tool to be used in acute and long-term care for preventing patient falls. Design: A review study. Methods: The studies were searched using predefined criteria in the electronic databases EBSCO, CINAHL, Medline, ScienceDirect, Wiley Library Online, ProQuest and ScienceDirect over a period of 2005-2015. After sorting the retrieved materials according to the PRISMA recommendations, a total of 12 articles were analyzed. Results: The validity of 11 tools for assesing the risk of falls in inpatients was determined. The studies varied in validity results, with one of the reasons being differences in design of the studies. The most frequently validated tools the Morse Fall Scale and Hendrich II for acute and long-term care and STRATIFY for acute care showed rather varied parameters defining their validity, with sensitivity ranging from 34% to 95% and specificity from 2% to 91%. Validity also depended on cut-off scores of the validated tools. Conclusion: Although one of the most frequently used tools for assessing the risk of falls in inpatients is the Morse Fall Scale, none of the tested to ols is clearly recommended as the most suitable one for preventing falls in acute and long-term care settings explicitly showing high validity results.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30305 - Occupational health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
ISSN
2336-3517
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
697-705
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85028873725