ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Impact of Nurses' Intervention in the Prevention of Falls in Hospitalized Patients.
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- Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Age and ageing · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a Supervised Patient Ambulation Program in Reducing Fall Risk Following Total Joint Arthroplasty.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2025Article
- Analysis of Hospital Safety and Risk of Falls in the Elderly: A Cross-Sectional Study in Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Nursing workload: use of artificial intelligence to develop a classifier model.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2024Observational
- Falls as the result of interplay between nurses, patient and the environment: Using text-mining to uncover how and why falls happen.International journal of nursing sciences · 2023Article
- Effects of Nurse-Led Fall Prevention Programs for Older Adults: A Systematic Review.Pacific Rim international journal of nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
backgroundClinical safety is a crucial component of healthcare quality, focused on identifying and avoiding the risks to which patients are exposed. Among the adverse events that occur in a hospital environment, falls have a large impact (1.9-10% of annual income in acute care hospitals); they can cause pain, damage, costs, and mistrust in the health system. Our objective was to assess the effect of an educational intervention aimed at hospital nurses (systematic assessment of the risk of falls) in reducing the incidence of falls.
methodsthis was a quasi-experimental study based on a sample of 581 patients in a third level hospital (Comunitat Valenciana, Spain). An educational program was given to the intervention group (
resultsa total of 581 patients were studied (50.6% male, 49.4% female), with an average age of 68.3 (DT = 9) years. The overall incidence of falls was 1.2% (0.3% in the intervention group and 2.2% in the control group). Most of the falls occurred in people ≥65 years old (85.7%). The intervention group had a lower probability of falling than the control group (OR: 0.127; IC95%: 0.013-0.821). Neither the length of hospital stay, nor the age of the participants, had any relevant effect.
conclusionsthe systematic assessment of the risk of a patient falling during hospital processes is an effective intervention to reduce the incidence of falls.
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