Characteristics of falls in the epilepsy monitoring unit: A retrospective study

Pati, Sandipan; Kumaraswamy, Vishakhadatta Mathur; Deep, Aman; Chung, Steve S.; Plueger, Madona; Kiyota, G.; Treiman, David M.

doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.06.013

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“…Some previous studies reported that falls often occurred in the patients' rooms (1,3,(13)(14)(19)(20). In our study, 79.2% of falls occurred in patients' rooms, and !…”

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Falls among Hospitalized Patients in an Acute Care Hospital: Analyses of Incident Reports

et al. 2018

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: Falls cause injuries such as fractures, skin lacerations, bleeding, and head injury, and could result in more severe medical conditions in hospitalized patients. We retrospectively investigated the incidence and characteristics of falls among hospitalized patients in an acute care hospital from incident reports by hospital staff between January and June 2013. There were 154 falls in 135 patients, 2 of which resulted in fracture. The average age of patients who fell was 63.9 (range 0 to 91) years. Many falls occurred at the bedside (68.2% %). Approximately half of all falls were related to elimination (46.6% %). The most common time of discovery of falls was 2 : 00-2 : 59 AM (14/154 ; 9.1% %), followed by early in the morning when patients would actively move. Fall rates in our hospital were 1.39 falls per 1,000 patient days. The department of respiratory medicine and rheumatology had the highest fall rate (3.08 falls per 1,000 patient days), followed by the departments of neurosurgery and neurology (2.98 falls per 1,000 patient days). This study revealed the characteristics of falls in an acute care hospital, and suggests that their notification in the hospital might help reduce the incidence of falls in hospitalized patients. J. Med. Invest. 65 : 81-84, February, 2018

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“…Some previous studies reported that falls often occurred in the patients' rooms (1,3,(13)(14)(19)(20). In our study, 79.2% of falls occurred in patients' rooms, and !…”

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confidence: 49%

Falls among Hospitalized Patients in an Acute Care Hospital: Analyses of Incident Reports

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“…The events of SE recorded in 0.4% of admissions were comprised of events of focal SE, while the reported rates of convulsive SE in comparable cohorts were 0.8-3% [1,3,16]. In agreement with other studies, all falls occurred when our patients were outside the bed [17,18], although we had fewer fall events (n = 6, 1.1% of admissions) than the 0.6-5.6% reported in comparable cohorts [1,9,16,18,19]. We had no events of postictal psychosis and fewer psychiatric AEs than reported by others in the literature [1,2], but on the other hand, we had relatively high AED-related AEs compared with Dobesberger et al [1].…”

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Safety in the epilepsy monitoring unit: A retrospective study of 524 consecutive admissions

Fahoum

Omer

Kipervasser

et al. 2016

Epilepsy & Behavior

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“…The largest retrospective study with the longest follow-up included 507 patients within a 6-year period [6], whereas the number of patients included in the other studies varied from 18 to 230 within a 6-month to 3-year period [4,7,16,17 ,18, 20,21,23,24]. Another study, which included 1116 patients over a period of 4 years, investigated seizurerelated falls only [9]. Patients' characteristics also varied across studies.…”

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confidence: 99%