Stratification of risk for hospital admissions for injury related to fall: cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether the ability to stratify an individual patient's hazard for falling could facilitate development of focused interventions aimed at reducing these adverse outcomes.

Design

Clinical and sociodemographic data from electronic health records were utilized to derive multiple logistic regression models of hospital readmissions for injuries related to falls. Drugs used at admission were summarized based on reported adverse effect frequencies in published drug labeling.

Setting

Two large academic medical centers in New England, United States.

Participants

The model was developed with 25,924 individuals age ≥ 40 with an initial hospital discharge. The resulting model was then tested in an independent set of 13,032 inpatients drawn from the s

SUBMITTER: Castro VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4208628 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature