A Comparative Study on the Validity of Fall Risk Assessment Scales in Korean Hospitals

Abstract

Accordingly, of the three fall risk assessment scales, the highest predictive validity for identifying patients at high risk for falls was achieved by the MFS.

Análise da capacidade de predição de risco e validade da Morse Fall Scale versão brasileira

“…In this study, the average scores of the MFS-B among patients who had suffered a fall and those who had not were similar to those of the validation of the Korean MFS (69.0 ± 24.1; 45.0 ± 23.2, respectively) (7) . However, the scores were higher than the scores found in the Chinese validation (32.12 ± 26.2; 28.68 ± 19.13, respectively) (8) and in the original version (24.78 ± 22.95) (5) .…”

“…the highest frequency of falls occurred in patients who obtained this score (true positives). This evidence was better than the evidence found in the Chinese version (31%) (8) , the original and the Korean versions (78%) (6,7) and in the German version (74.5%) (9) . For specificity in the Brazilian version, the frequency of patients with scores below 45 points and of patients who did not fall was 64%.…”

“…This result coincides with the cutoff point to identify high risk of the original scale (5) and with the cutoff point found in the Chinese version (8) . However, it differs from the Korean version (50 points) (7) and the German version (55 points) (9) . In this study, the score ≥ 45 points to predict the risk of falling during hospitalisation obtained the best result for the sensitivity of the scale (95.2%), i.e.…”

“…The original MFS was translated, adapted and validated for use in other countries. The results of these studies available online were from Korea (7) , China (8) , Germany (9) and Portugal (10) . For the latter version, only the translation and cross-cultural adaptation are available.…”

Procjena rizika od pada: pregled skala za evaluaciju rizika

“…Prema komparativnoj studiji provedenoj u Južnoj Koreji, 28 osjetljivost ove skale iznosila je od 62 do 69 %, specifičnost od 60 do 69,5 %, PPV od 30,1 do 33,6 %, a NPV od 86 do 88,6 %.…”