The risk of fall-related hospitalisations at entry into permanent residential aged care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Entering permanent residential aged care (PRAC) is a vulnerable time for individuals. While falls risk assessment tools exist, these have not leveraged routinely collected and integrated information from the Australian aged and health care sectors. Our study examined individual, system, medication, and health care related factors at PRAC entry that are predictors of fall-related hospitalisations and developed a risk assessment tool using integrated aged and health care data.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted on N = 32,316 individuals ≥65 years old who entered a PRAC facility (01/01/2009-31/12/2016). Fall-related hospitalisations within 90 or 365 days were the outcomes of interest. Individual, system, medication, and health care-related factors wer

SUBMITTER: Inacio MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8650418 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature