Development and Testing of a Visual Tool for Assessing Risk of Falls
Background:
To develop a “Time Pressure-Kiken Yochi Training (TP-KYT) system” for measuring risk prediction ability of health care professionals.
Methods:
The TP-KYT was developed using responses from 51 experts with at least 5 years of clinical experience (8.7 ± 5.3 years). Participants extracted risk items by scoring 5 illustrations depicting fall-related medical accidents. With 77 “Experts” (34.0 ± 5.6 years old; clinical experience, 9.1 ± 4.8 years), 34 “Competents” (26.8 ± 5.5 years old; clinical experience, 1.1 ± 0.9 years), 34 “Advanced Beginners” (21.9 ± 0.7 years old), and 44 “Novices” (18.7 ± 1.9 years old), TP-KYT was validated using 1-way analysis of variance and Tukey's HSD (honestly significant difference) test. Risk prediction ability was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.
Results:
Experts scored significantly higher than others (Competents: P
Source: Quality Management in Healthcare - Category: Health Management Tags: Original Research Source Type: research