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KMID : 1031020170230020069
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Quality Improvement in Health Care
2017 Volume.23 No. 2 p.69 ~ p.78
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Associations Between Classification of the Geriatric Screening for Care-10 and the Morse Fall Scale
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Kim Yoon-Sook
Lee Jong-Min
Choi Jae-Kyung
Shin Jin-Young
Han Seol-Heui
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Abstract
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Background: The purpose of this study was to examine associations between classification of the Geriatric Screening for Care-10 (GSC-10) and the Morse Fall Scale (MFS) among elderly inpatients.
Methods: Among elderly inpatients aged over 65 admitted to hospital (from November 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017), the data for 5,780 patients (who were evaluated using the Morse Fall Scale and the Geriatric Screening for Care-10) were analyzed using χ2-tests and t-tests to examine differences between the GSC-10 and MFS, according to general characteristics of elderly inpatients (i.e., gender) using IBM SPSS Statistics 24.
Results: Scores for the GSC-10 were significantly higher in women than men for depression (p<.001), delirium (p=.048), functional decline (p<.001), incontinence (p<.001), and pain (p<.001). Statistically significant differences in all domains of the GSC-10 for elderly hospitalized patients were found for the classification of fall risk.
Conclusion: The findings of this study, as supported by the GSC-10, indicate that the most common problems experienced by the elderly are related to the risk of falling. In order to reduce the incidence of falls in elderly inpatients, customized fall prevention based on the GSC-10 results is necessary.
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KEYWORD
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Elderly, Morse fall scale, Geriatric screening
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