Evaluation of falls by inpatients in an acute care hospital in Korea using the Morse Fall Scale
- Authors
- Sung, Yung Hee; Cho, Myung Sook; Kwon, In Gak; Jung, Yoen Yi; Song, Mi Ra; Kim, Kyunghee; Won, Sungho
- Issue Date
- Oct-2014
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- accidental; falls; inpatients; instruments
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE, v.20, no.5, pp 510 - 517
- Pages
- 8
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE
- Volume
- 20
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 510
- End Page
- 517
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/11795
- DOI
- 10.1111/ijn.12192
- ISSN
- 1322-7114
1440-172X
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to determine the cut-off values of the Korean version of the Morse Fall Scale (MFS-K) that would be most useful in identifying hospitalized patients at risk of falls in an acute-care setting in Korea. This study was conducted using the medical records of 66 patients who fell and 100 patients who did not fall (no-fall patients) sampled from inpatients hospitalized at a tertiary acute-care hospital in Seoul during the period from 1 January to 30 November 2009. The optimal cut-off point for the MFS-K was found to be 45 points, which produced an acceptable sensitivity and a fairly good specificity, negative predictive value and accuracy. The highest peak on the receiver operating characteristic curve was a cut-off score of 45 points in the MFS-K. Further research needs to be performed to determine the optimal cut-off score according to subjects' conditions through daily measurement with the MFS in medical or surgical patients who are relatively homogeneous in terms of individual and disease-related factors.
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