frail elderlylong‐term carerisk assessmentsensitivity and specificityTo conduct a systematic review of published fall risk assessment tools (FRATs) tested for predictive validity among older adults in long-term care (LTC).A systematic search was conducted using five databases. Only studies reporting ...
Fall risk assessment is a powerful tool that aids in determining the risk of falls for a given individual in order to provide early diagnosis and treatment to reduce or prevent future falls. Traditionally, clinical fall risk assessments among older adults consist of questionnaires or functional asses...
Identifying those at risk of falling is an important clinical task often conducted in e.g., those with visual impairment [3], and the elderly [4,5,6]. Equally, fall risk assessment is of notable importance and pragmatically useful in people with a movement disorder, such as Parkinson’s ...
Objective To discuss the relationship between fall risk and psychological efficiency in elderly inpatients.Methods The Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool(Chinese vision) and Modified Falls Efficacy Scale were used to evaluate 105 hospitalized elderly patients.Results The fall risk score of elderly in...
Falls account for one of the most common and serious issues contributing to a disability, especially among elderly individuals. Tinetti et al. in 1988 defined a fall as an event that results in a person coming to rest on the ground or other lower-level unintentionally, which is not as a ...
🔎 If you're working with elderly patients, you may also enjoy the Omni BIMS calculator, a handy tool for assessing cognitive impairment. How to interpret the Morse fall risk scale score? You can find the interpretations of the Morse fall scale calculator's scores in the table below: Score...
The MMSE is a widely used screening tool that provides a brief, objective measure of cognitive function and is one of the best validated tests of cognitive function among the elderly [38]. The MMSE cut-off score of < 24 will enable the participants to follow the CaF training, which ...
The study design was informed by the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis [19]. Data source and search strategy Five databases, Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, CENTRAL, and CINAHL, were systematically searched in November 2021 using the key terms “fall”, “elderly”, and “systematic...
Thomas’s Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly Inpatients (STRATIFY). A complete health history should be obtained and lab test results evaluated for changes that could lead to falls. Vital signs should also be monitored, with attention paid to orthostatic hypotension. During hospitalizations, ...
risk assessmentnursingOBJECTIVES: To assess the predictive value of the St. Thomas's Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly Inpatients (STRATIFY) instrument, a simple fall-risk assessment tool, when administered at a patient's hospital bedside by nurses....