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A risk assessment score predicted which elderly patients would fall during a hospital stay

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.1.3.90

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    Oliver D, Britton M, Seed P, et al.Development and evaluation of evidence based risk assessment tool (STRATIFY) to predict which elderly inpatients will fall: case-control and cohort studies.BMJ1997 Oct 25;315:1049–53.OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

    Question Can a risk assessment tool that uses information on risk factors easily collected by nurses in routine care predict which elderly hospital patients will fall?

    Design

    A case control study to develop the tool and 2 cohort studies to validate it.

    Settings

    4 wards for elderly patients in a teaching hospital (development and local validation) and 2 acute and 4 rehabilitation wards of a general hospital (remote validation) in the UK.

    Patients

    For development of the tool, 116 patients (mean age 85 y) who had fallen (an incident in which a patient suddenly and involuntarily came to rest on the ground or surface lower than their original station) were matched with the patient in the …

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    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: no external funding.

    • For article reprint: Dr D Oliver, Department of Elderly Care (Division of Medicine), United Medical and Dental Schools, St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK. Fax +44 (0)171 928 2339.

    • A modified version of this abstract appears in ACP Journal Club 1998 May-Jun and Evidence-Based Medicine 1998 May-Jun.