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Falls and fall risk among nursing home residents [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2007 Aim and objectives. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for falls in older people living in nursing homes.Background. Impaired cognitive function and a poor sense of orientation could lead to an increase in falls among those with impaired freedom of movement. Many accidents occur while an older person is walking or being moved.Method.
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Fall Prevention: Reduce Your Risk!
EDIS, 2005 Some lifestyle factors can affect your risk of falling. Find out how much you know about these factors by completing the crossword puzzle in this document.
Jennifer Hillan
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Inclusion of medication-related fall risk in fall risk assessment tool in geriatric care units
BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Falls are common undesirable events for older adults in institutions. Even though the patient’s fall risk may be scored on admission, the medication-induced fall risk may be ignored.
Jana Michalcova +3 more
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Fall Risk Factors and Fall Risk Assessment of Inpatients
Korean Journal of Adult Nursing, 2013 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the fall risk factors and to evaluate the effectiveness of the Morse Fall Scale(MFS) as an assessment tool among hospitalized inpatients.METHODS: The medical records of a total of 294 patients who admitted to hospital from January 1 to December 31, 2010 were reviewed.
Yoon Sook Kim, Smi Choi-Kwon
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Fall Risk Assessment Experience
MedEdPORTAL, 2010 Falls are common in older adults and result in significant morbidity, including injury, pain, disability, and even death. Risk factors for falling have been identified, and interventions to improve these risk factors have been found to reduce fall rates ...
Sara Bradley, Reena Karani
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Predicting Fall Risk Through Automatic Wearable Monitoring: A Systematic Review
International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, 2021 Falls represent a major burden on elderly individuals and society as a whole. Technologies that are able to detect individuals at risk of fall before occurrence could help reduce this burden by targeting those individuals for rehabilitation to reduce ...
Markey C. Olson, Thurmon E. Lockhart
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Italian Journal of Medicine, 2019 Falls in hospital are common and have serious consequences for patients, including physical and psychological harm, increase length of stay and hospital costs.
Shyh Poh Teo
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Person‐Centered Fall Risk Awareness Perspectives: Clinical Correlates and Fall Risk [PDF]
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2016 Objectives To identify clinical correlates of person‐centered fall risk awareness and their validity for predicting falls. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting
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Increasing fall risk awareness using wearables: A fall risk awareness protocol
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2016 Each year about a third of elderly aged 65 or older experience a fall. Many of these falls may have been avoided if fall risk assessment and prevention tools where available in a daily living situation. We identify what kind of information is relevant for doing fall risk assessment and prevention using wearable sensors in a daily living environment by ...
Asbjørn Danielsen +2 more
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Imminent fall risk after fracture
Age and Ageing, 2023 Abstract Rationale Adults with a recent fracture have a high imminent risk of a subsequent fracture. We hypothesise that, like subsequent fracture risk, fall risk is also highest immediately after a fracture.
Merle R Schene +6 more
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