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Evaluation of falls by inpatients in an acute care hospital in K orea using the M orse F all S cale
Author(s) -
Sung Yung Hee,
Cho Myung Sook,
Kwon In Gak,
Jung Yoen Yi,
Song Mi Ra,
Kim Kyunghee,
Won Sungho
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/ijn.12192
Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , acute care , medical record , predictive value , homogeneous , emergency medicine , health care , physics , economics , thermodynamics , economic growth
The purpose of this study was to determine the cut‐off values of the K orean version of the M orse F all S cale ( MFS ‐ K ) that would be most useful in identifying hospitalized patients at risk of falls in an acute‐care setting in K orea. This study was conducted using the medical records of 66 patients who fell and 100 patients who did not fall (no‐fall patients) sampled from inpatients hospitalized at a tertiary acute‐care hospital in Seoul during the period from 1 J anuary to 30 N ovember 2009. The optimal cut‐off point for the MFS ‐ K was found to be 45 points, which produced an acceptable sensitivity and a fairly good specificity, negative predictive value and accuracy. The highest peak on the receiver operating characteristic curve was a cut‐off score of 45 points in the MFS ‐ K . Further research needs to be performed to determine the optimal cut‐off score according to subjects' conditions through daily measurement with the MFS in medical or surgical patients who are relatively homogeneous in terms of individual and disease‐related factors.