Fall incidents in nursing home residents: development of a predictive clinical rule (FINDER).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop (part I) and validate (part II) an electronic fall risk clinical rule (CR) to identify nursing home residents (NH-residents) at risk for a fall incident.

Design

Observational, retrospective case-control study.

Setting

Nursing homes.

Participants

A total of 1668 (824 in part I, 844 in part II) NH-residents from the Netherlands were included. Data of participants from part I were excluded in part II.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Development and validation of a fall risk CR in NH-residents. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify the fall risk-variables in part I. With these, three CRs were developed (ie, at the day of the fall incident and 3 days and 5 days prior to the fall incident). The overall prediction q

SUBMITTER: Milosevic V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8098923 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature