منابع مشابه
LPAD-based Fall Risk Assessment
About 30% of persons over 65 are subject to at least one fall during a year. A number of published studies identify statistical relations between risk factors and the probability of fall in terms of odds ratios. In this paper we present a tool based on the representation of risk factors as odds ratios. Such representation is exploited to automatically build a computational logic probabilistic p...
متن کاملRisk assessment tools.
Timed up and go test and risk of falls in older adults: a systematic review. Beauchet O, Fantino B, Allali G, Muir SW, Montero-Odasso M, Annweiler C. J. Nutr. Health Aging 2011; 15(10): 933-938. Of the 92 selected studies, 11 met the selection criteria and were included in the final analysis. Fall rate ranged from 7.5 to 60.0% in the selected studies. The cut-off time separating non-fallers and...
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OBJECTIVES to compare the use of two falls risk-identification tools (Downton and STRATIFY) with clinical judgment (based upon the observation of wandering behaviour) in predicting falls of medically stable patients in a rehabilitation ward for older people. METHODS in a prospective observational study, with blinded end-point evaluation, 200 patients admitted to a geriatric rehabilitation hos...
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PRACTICE CHANGE: The nurse electronically addresses single or recurrent falls, normal or abnormal Get Up and Go Test, recent fall circumstances, patient injury and treatment, assistive devices, difficulty walking, medications, vision changes, shortness of breath and dizziness. The provider has a plan/action comment box to review/ adjust medications, educate environmental modifications, history,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1877-9352,1877-9344
DOI: 10.4081/itjm.2019.1196