Citation

Yokota S, Tomotaki A, Mohri O, Endo M, Ohe K. J. Nurs. Care Qual. 2018; 33(4): E1-E6.

Affiliation

Departments of Healthcare Information Management (Messrs Yokota and Mohri) and Nursing (Ms Endo), The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; National College of Nursing Japan, Tokyo, Japan (Ms Tomotaki); and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Dr Ohe).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000315

PMID

29271833

Abstract

We investigated the effect of using a fall risk screening tool in an electronic medical record system by using data for 25 039 patients in 24 general wards of a single institution. The probability of the occurrence of falls decreased after the tool was implemented, but using the tool did not reduce the actual occurrence of falls. This indicates that we must improve not only the assessment of the risk of falls but also the interventions to prevent falls.

Language: en