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Diagnostic accuracy of three types of fall risk methods for predicting falls in nursing homes

Author(s) -

Hege Bentzen,

Astrid Bergland,

Lisa Forsén

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

aging clinical and experimental research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911

H-Index - 71

eISSN - 1720-8319

pISSN - 1594-0667

DOI - 10.1007/bf03324959

Subject(s) - medicine , predictive value , risk assessment , positive predicative value , predictive value of tests , prospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , poison control , hazard ratio , predictive validity , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , falling (accident) , demography , emergency medicine , confidence interval , environmental health , pathology , clinical psychology , computer security , computer science , sociology

To determine the diagnostic accuracy of three different methods for identifying individuals at high risk of falling. The St- Thomas Risk Assessment tool (STRATIFY- modified for nursing homes), staff judgment of fall risk, and previous falls remembered by the staff were evaluated. We also examined whether a combination of two of the methods would increase accuracy.

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