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) ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the risk of falls in elderly, by comparing the sociodemographic and cognitive factors, history of falls and self-reported comorbidities. Method: cross-sectional and quantitative study with 240 elderly. Data were collected based on the social profile, through the instrument...
Martinez, Maria Carmen;
Iwamoto, Viviane Ernesto;
Latorre, Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira;
Noronha, Adriana Moreira;
Oliveira, Ana Paula de Sousa;
Cardoso, Carlos Eduardo Alves;
Marques, Ifigenia Augusta Braga;
Vendramim, Patrícia;
Lopes, Paula Cristina;
Sant'Ana, Thais Helena Saes de.
ABSTRACT Objective: to perform the transcultural adaptation and content validity analysis of the Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool to assess both fall risk and fall-related injury risk for hospitalized elderly in Brazil. Method: the transcultural adaptation consisted of translating the scale to...
OBJECTIVES: to identify the prevalence of the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for falls in the hospitalizations of adult patients in clinical and surgical units, to characterize the clinical profile and to identify the risk factors of the patients with this ND. METHOD: a cross-sectional study with 174 patien...
