Factors Associated with Falls in Psychogeriatric Inpatients and Comparison of Two Fall Risk Assessment Tools.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with dementia and women had higher risk of fall. Extra proportion of at-risk patients are able to benefit from additional fall risk interventions when WSFRAT is used instead of MFS. Further studies are needed to calculate the psychometric properties of WSFRAT.
PMID: 31237251 [PubMed - in process]

Source: East Asian Archives of Psychiatry - June 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: East Asian Arch Psychiatry Source Type: research