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KMID : 1033320120020010034
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Global Health & Nursing
2012 Volume.2 No. 1 p.34 ~ p.42
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Fall Risk of Patients Admitted to Emergency Room
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Beack Young-Ji
Jeong Ihn-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was performed to assess the risk for falls among emergency room (ER) patients using Morse Fall Scale (MFS) and The Johns Hopkins Hospital Fall Risk Assessment Tool (JHH) and the agreement between these results.
Methods: This study was conducted in March, June, September, and December (one month of each quarter in 2010), Total 1,971 patients over 20 years old who stayed more than 6 hours in ER of a university hospital were enrolled in this study. Based on MFS and JHHI we categorized the risk of fall as low, intermediate, and high and the results using MFS were compared with results using JHH.
Results: With MFS, the fall risk score was 36.9 and moderate risk group was 74.3%. By JHH, the risk score was 6.1 and low risk group was high 52.1%. Risk group agreement between two tools was .49.
Conclusion: There was similar results between MFS and JHH, Both tools are recommended for assessment of the risk of patients fall.
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KEYWORD
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Accidental falls, Risk assessment, Emergency service
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