This study aims to assess the prevalence of falls, understand their consequences, identify causes and analyze intervention strategies to prevent them. This is a descriptive longitudinal study, from 2007 to 2009, in which nurses recorded patients' falls in a medicine ward, using a scale developed for this end. Most falls occurred with partially dependent patients, with a mean age ranging from 64 to 74 years. The bedroom was, in all of these years, the place where most of these falls occurred. Although most falls did not have consequences, they were observed in 36% of the cases. The number of falls increased throughout the years of the study. There was also a difference in the percentage of occurrences in the afternoon and night shifts (39% i...
OBJECTIVES: to identify the prevalence of the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for falls in the hospital...
Objective: To identify risk factors for falls in hospitalized patients and propose nursing actions. ...
El estudio realizado se orientó a caracterizar las condiciones laborales propias del proceso de trab...
Introducción: Las caídas son un problema de salud importante en ancianos institucionalizados debido ...
Patients falls represent a preoccupation to health professionals and administrators, since they comp...
Objective: to identify risk factors for falls in hospitalized adult patients. Methods: a matched cas...
Objective: To establish the frequency of falls in hospitalized patients in two, third-level institut...
The fall of hospitalized patients is a world reality and the most frequent adverse events in this en...
This is an exploratory descriptive study with a quantitative approach, in which variables associated...
Objective: To establish the frequency of falls in hospitalized patients in two, third-level institut...
Objetivo: Identificar os fatores de risco para a ocorrência de quedas em pacientes adultos hospitali...
Aim: this study aims to know the characteristics of elderly people hospitalized for femoral fracture...
Introduction: Aging is a dynamic and progressive process that includes morphological, functional, so...
Objetivo: Investigar a prevalência, causas e consequências relacionadas à ocorrência de quedas entre...
Casos de profissionais cometendo iatrogenias em relação a erros de medicação, lesões cutâneas em cl...
OBJECTIVES: to identify the prevalence of the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for falls in the hospital...
Objective: To identify risk factors for falls in hospitalized patients and propose nursing actions. ...
El estudio realizado se orientó a caracterizar las condiciones laborales propias del proceso de trab...
Introducción: Las caídas son un problema de salud importante en ancianos institucionalizados debido ...
Patients falls represent a preoccupation to health professionals and administrators, since they comp...
Objective: to identify risk factors for falls in hospitalized adult patients. Methods: a matched cas...
Objective: To establish the frequency of falls in hospitalized patients in two, third-level institut...
The fall of hospitalized patients is a world reality and the most frequent adverse events in this en...
This is an exploratory descriptive study with a quantitative approach, in which variables associated...
Objective: To establish the frequency of falls in hospitalized patients in two, third-level institut...
Objetivo: Identificar os fatores de risco para a ocorrência de quedas em pacientes adultos hospitali...
Aim: this study aims to know the characteristics of elderly people hospitalized for femoral fracture...
Introduction: Aging is a dynamic and progressive process that includes morphological, functional, so...
Objetivo: Investigar a prevalência, causas e consequências relacionadas à ocorrência de quedas entre...
Casos de profissionais cometendo iatrogenias em relação a erros de medicação, lesões cutâneas em cl...
OBJECTIVES: to identify the prevalence of the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for falls in the hospital...
Objective: To identify risk factors for falls in hospitalized patients and propose nursing actions. ...
El estudio realizado se orientó a caracterizar las condiciones laborales propias del proceso de trab...