ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the safety of hospitalized older adults as for the risk of falls according to the parameters of the Morse Fall Scale. Method: Epidemiological, cross-sectional, prospective and descriptive study with n=75. Results: Average age of 71.3 years (SD±8.2); 58.7% male; 44% wit...
ABSTRACT Objectives: To validate the content of a fall management risk protocol in long-term institutions for elderly people. Methods: Methodological, quanti-qualitative study using the Delphi technique. The tool, based on the literature, was sent electronically to obtain consensus among the 14 experts...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the occurrence of falls in institutionalized elderly addressing the risks, consequences and antecedents. Method: Cross-sectional study carried out with 45 older adults in Long-Term Care Facilities for the Older adult in João Pessoa, Brazil, in June and July 2016. A socio...
Accidentes por Caídas/estadística & datos numéricos,
Análisis de Varianza,
Distribución de Chi-Cuadrado,
Comorbilidad,
Estudios Transversales,
Institucionalización/estadística & datos numéricos,
Cuidados a Largo Plazo/métodos,
Cuidados a Largo Plazo/estadística & datos numéricos,
Medición de Riesgo/métodos,
Factores de Riesgo,
Estadísticas no Paramétricas,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
ABSTRACT Objective: identify relationships of association between the risk of falls in institutionalized elderly people with polypharmacy and polypathy, as well as to outline the epidemiological profile of its casuistry. Method: a prospective obseracional study with 271 elderly residents in long-stay...
ABSTRACT Objectives: understand the experience of the elderly with falls followed by femoral fracture and elaborate theoretical model of this process of lived experience. Method: qualitative research with theoretical saturation through analysis of the ninth nondirected interview of elderly who underwen...
Accidentes por Caídas,
Anciano/psicología,
Anciano de 80 o más Años/psicología,
Fémur/lesiones,
Fracturas Óseas/complicaciones,
Fracturas Óseas/psicología,
Teoría Fundamentada,
Acontecimientos que Cambian la Vida,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Investigación Cualitativa,
Poblaciones Vulnerables/psicología
Abstract Objectives: assess the risk of falls in adult hospitalized patients and verify the incidence of the event in this environment. Method: cohort study, with approval by the Research Ethics Committee, which monitored 831 patients hospitalized at a university hospital. The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) ...
RESUMO Objetivo: sumarizar as dissertações e teses produzidas por enfermeiros disponíveis no Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, do volume XIX ao XXXII, que abordam a segurança do paciente. Método: pesquisa documental. Após coleta de dados, analisaram-se ...
Accidentes por Caídas/prevención & control,
Brasil,
Educación de Postgrado en Enfermería/clasificación,
Educación de Postgrado en Enfermería/estadística & datos numéricos,
Escolaridad,
Seguridad del Paciente/estadística & datos numéricos,
Úlcera por Presión/prevención & control,
Investigación/clasificación,
Investigación/estadística & datos numéricos,
Investigación/tendencias,
Conducta de Reducción del Riesgo,
Estudiantes de Enfermería/clasificación,
Estudiantes de Enfermería/estadística & datos numéricos
ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the factors associated with the risk of fall in patients undergoing surgical procedures. Method: quantitative and cross-sectional study carried out with 257 adult patients in a hospital in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data were collected using the sociodemographic ...
Abstract OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence of falls and frailty syndrome and the association between these two syndromes in the elderly population. METHOD Systematic review, without restriction of dates, in English, Portuguese and Spanish languages, in the databases PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS and in the ...
Abstract OBJECTIVE To identify the factors associated with the fear of falling in the older adultliving at home. METHOD Cross-sectional study with probabilistic sampling of older adultenrolled in two Family Health Strategies (FHS). The fear of falling was measured by the Brazilian version of the Falls ...
