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| Title: | Falls in Elderly: A Hospital Reality Integrative Review |
| Authors: | Reliquias, T.P.
Agostinho, C.D.
Marques, Maria do Céu Mendes |
| Keywords: | hospital
risk factors
elderly
falls |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Citation: | Relíquias, T. P., Agostinho, C. D., & Marques, M. D. (2020). Falls in Elderly: A Hospital Reality Integrative Review. In C. Fonseca, M. Lopes, D. Mendes, F. Mendes, & J. García-Alonso (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Health Systems and Organizations for an Aging Society (pp. 196-207). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9818-3.ch015 |
| Abstract: | The objective of this chapter is to identify the risk factors and preponderant causes of falls in the hospital
elderly inpatients. A survey on the search engines B-on, EBSCO, and Pubmed, followed by an analysis
of the title and abstract is done. Afterwards, the authors analyze all the articles with full text available
in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. The most common risk factor for falls in the analyzed articles was
being aged above 65 years old. More than half of the articles also mentioned intrinsic factors such as
mental disorder, mobility disorder, and use of medication. As for extrinsic factors associated with risk
of falls, most of the articles mentioned the characteristics of bed/chair and the obstacles associated with
the physical/environmental infrastructures. The prevention strategies for this phenomenon must consider
each country and care unit specifically as well as the specific characteristics of its patients, aiming to
promote the care quality. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27334 |
| Type: | bookPart |
| Appears in Collections: | CICTS - Publicações - Capítulos de Livros
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