Exploring possible risk factors for time to first fall and 6-month fall incidence in persons with acute stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim was to explore how the time to the first fall and 6-month fall incidence relates to rapidly and easily collected data in persons with acute stroke.

Methods

Out of consecutively admitted patients with stroke at three stroke units, 284 with at least one follow-up were included in this prospective cohort study. During 6 months following discharge, participants reported falls using a diary and monthly phone calls. Data about participants' characteristics, functions, and activities were collected during hospital stay and analyzed in relation to time to first fall by Cox regression and fall incidence by negative binomial regression.

Results

Use of ⩾9 medications, paresis in arms, paresis in legs (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale), impaired prote

SUBMITTER: Sjoholm H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8977710 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature