A Retrospective, Matched Case-Control Study on the Risk Factors of Falls and Varying Severities of Fall-Related Injuries in Inpatients

This study was to investigate the factors that influence falls and the severity of fall-related injuries in inpatients. Methods We adopted a retrospective, matched case-control design and conducted this study at a teaching hospital in Taiwan. Our study period ran from January 2016 to December 2019. We searched for inpatients with official fall records and obtained data from 823 patients, and then established a control group comprising 331 matching patients based on age, sex, length of hospital stay at time of fall incident, and ward type, thereby resulting in 1154 patients in all. A cumulative logistic regression model was applied to the data collected from medical records and fall incident reports to identify the factors that influence falls and the severity of fall-related injuries in inpatients. Results The results indicated that the use of sedatives (B = 0.49, P
Source: Journal of Patient Safety - Category: Health Management Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research