Quality Improvement in Health Care (한국의료질향상학회지)
- Volume 15 Issue 2
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- Pages.107-120
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- 2009
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- 1225-7613(pISSN)
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- 2288-078X(eISSN)
Falls in the General Hospital Inpatients: Incidence, Associated Factors
일개 종합병원 입원환자의 낙상 실태 및 관련 요인
- Yang, Hwa-Mi (Quality improvement team, St. Paul hospital) ;
- Chun, Byung-Chul (Graduate School of public health, Korea University)
- Published : 2009.12.31
Abstract
Background : To estimate fall incidence rate and associated factors in inpatients from a general hospital. Method : The data were collected from 104 fall incident reports developed by the patient safety committee in a general hospital in Seoul from 01 January 2007 to 31 December 2008. Information included general characteristics of patients, factors related to fall, types, places, circumstances and outcomes of fall. Result : The incidence rate of fall, which was 4.4 per 1,000 total discharged patients and 0.5 per 1,000 patient-days, was much lower than that of several hospitals in the United States. The difference may reflect the different incidence reporting system of each hospital. Fall-prone patients were, in general,