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Design and Analysis for Fall Detection System Simplification
Published on: April 6, 2020
[Development of an alarm system for the prevention of falls in hospitalized patients]
Abstract:
The present study describes the analysis of an online patient assessment system developed to prevent inpatients falls. A chart review was performed in order to identify risk factors present in the Nursing Assessment tool. The identified variables were Functional status including walking, transferring and toilet, sex and patients self-care ability. Authors developed a system using these variables, that is available since February 1997. In a second phase of this study, authors aim to evaluate the effectiveness of this computerized intervention.
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