Monitoring falls in residential aged care facilities: Agreement between falls incident reports and progress notes

CONCLUSIONS: There was substantial agreement between incident reports and progress records. These findings support the use of incident reports for identifying falls in research or to investigate the effectiveness of fall prevention strategies in residential aged care facilities.PMID:38217881 | DOI:10.1111/ajag.13276

Source: Australasian Journal on Ageing - January 13, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Rik Dawson Annie Feng Juliana S Oliveira Leanne Hassett Catherine Sherrington Marina B Pinheiro Source Type: research