Background: Falls risk assessment tools are used in hospital inpatient settings to identify patients at increased risk of falls to guide and target interventions for fall prevention. In 2022, Western Health, Melbourne, Australia, introduced a new falls risk assessment tool, the ...
There is also evidence for the benefits of specific components of CGA; for example, medications reviews can reduce the risk of fall-related injuries for older people [13], and multifactorial falls risk assessments and management programmes can reduce the frequency of falls [14]. Community ...
The physical domain of GA-MDS contains data about overall physical assessment, nutrition status, independence status or activities of daily living (ADLs), malnutrition, and fall risk assessment. Frailty as an important syndrome of geriatrics is a state of clear vulnerability to stressful conditions ...
The most common health problems disclosed by the CGA were pneumococcal vaccination more than 3 years earlier, followed by sleep disorder, sedentarism, urinary incontinence, fall risk and cognitive impairment. The mean duration of CGA was 52 min and patient acceptability was high. Conclusion: The ...
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Development of a Risk Assessment Tool for Falls Prevention in Hospital Inpatients Based on the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI) and Modified Beer's C... the Beers Criteria and MAI as a framework, a falls specific inappropriate prescribing (FASPIP) tool for use in elderly hospitalized patient...
A systematic review has revealed that sarcopenia is associated with adverse outcomes, including elevated mortality rates, functional decline, increased fall risk, and increased hospitalizations, making it a substantial public health burden within the geriatric population20. The medical burden in the older...
The results of this trial suggest that guided prescribing of psychotropic medication may be an important tool for reducing the fall risk of an entire hospitalized population. The intervention periods were associated with a greater than 50% drop in inpatient falls, and none of the available ...
A screening tool; if score is <24, formal neurocognitive testing should be considered 7-10 minutes Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)41 Some overlap with the MMSE, but the MOCA is also sensitive to early impairment in executive function which is not measured by the MMSE ...
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