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Design and Analysis for Fall Detection System Simplification
Published on: April 6, 2020
Accidents from falls among hospitalized patients in Emergency Units: a multicenter study
Bárbara Cristina Dias Giaquinto1, Cristiana Mattos Camargos Oliveira1, Camila Cardoso de Araújo Costa1
1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Objectives:
to analyze the occurrence of falls among patients hospitalized in emergency units.
Methods:
a cross-sectional study conducted from October 2020 to January 2021 in the emergency units of four hospitals in the city of Belo Horizonte. Sociodemographic, clinical, event-related, and post-fall data were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression.
Results:
among the 89 medical records analyzed, falls were more frequent among elderly male patients, presenting with psychomotor agitation/mental confusion, occurring in the afternoon period and while on stretchers. Logistic regression revealed that patients who developed complications following the fall were associated with a higher degree of harm requiring intervention (moderate, severe, or death). Overall parameters of (OR: 19.64; p = 0.007), while only female sex related to (OR: 0.16; p = 0.037).
Conclusions:
in emergency settings, patients who experienced complications due to falls tended to evolve with a degree of harm that demanded more interventions and led to irreversible outcomes. Female sex was associated with the occurrence of harm not requiring intervention.
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