Exploring the Environment behind In-Patient Falls and Their Relation to Hospital Overcrowdedness—A Register-Based Observational Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Inpatient Falls and Their Characteristics
3.2. Correlation between the Inpatient Overcrowdedness and the Total Amount of Inpatient Falls
3.3. Statistical Association of Total Number of Inpatient Falls with the Inpatient Overcrowdedness
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Clinic | Falls | Severe | Location | Time of Day | Staff | ||||
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Falls | Toilet | Dayroom | Room | Corridor | Day | Night | Present | ||
n | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Gynecology | 21 | 1 (4.8) | 11 (52.4) | 1 (4.8) | 7 (33.3) | 2 (9.5) | 12 (57.1) | 9 (42.9) | 3 (14.3) |
Endocrinology | 24 | 2 (8.3) | 6 (25) | 0 (0) | 18 (75) | 0 (0) | 9 (37.5) | 15 (62.5) | 1 (4.2) |
Vascular | 28 | 6 (21.4) | 2 (7.1) | 2 (7.1) | 22 (78.6) | 2 (7.1) | 13 (46.4) | 15 (53.6) | 3 (10.7) |
Hematology | 33 | 3 (9.1) | 8 (24.2) | 1 (3) | 23 (69.8) | 1 (3) | 13 (39.4) | 20 (60.6) | 5 (15.2) |
Neurosurgery | 41 | 1 (2.4) | 7 (17.1) | 1 (2.4) | 28 (68.3) | 5 (12.2) | 24 (58.5) | 17 (41.5) | 4 (9.8) |
Urology | 45 | 1 (2.2) | 8 (17.8) | 3 (6.7) | 30 (66.7) | 4 (8.9) | 28 (62.2) | 17 (37.8) | 4 (8.9) |
Nephrology | 52 | 3 (5.8) | 9 (17.3) | 6 (11.5) | 34 (65.,4) | 3 (5.8) | 24 (46.2) | 28 (53.8) | 5 (9.6) |
Gastroenterology | 57 | 1 (1.8) | 20 (35.1) | 0 (0) | 35 (61.4) | 2 (3.5) | 30 (52.6) | 27 (47.4) | 11 (19.3) |
Lung | 84 | 3 (3.6) | 20 (23.8) | 3 (3.6) | 58 (69) | 3 (3.6) | 31 (36.9) | 53 (63.1) | 7 (8.3) |
Infectious diseases | 137 | 3 (2.2) | 34 (24.8) | 1 (0.7) | 96 (70.1) | 6 (4.4) | 64 (46.7) | 73 (53.3) | 13 (9.5) |
Orthopedic | 158 | 5 (3.2) | 28 (17.7) | 8 (5.1) | 116 (73.4) | 6 (3.8) | 68 (43) | 90 (57) | 11 (7) |
Neurology | 190 | 6 (3.2) | 32 (16.8) | 12 (6.3) | 123 (64.7) | 23 (12.1) | 90 (47.4) | 100 (52.6) | 26 (13.7) |
TOTAL | 870 | 35 (4.2) | 185 (21.3) | 38 (4.4) | 590 (67.8) | 57 (6.5) | 406 (46.7) | 464 (53.3) | 93 (10.7) |
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Stathopoulos, D.; Ekvall Hansson, E.; Stigmar, K. Exploring the Environment behind In-Patient Falls and Their Relation to Hospital Overcrowdedness—A Register-Based Observational Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10742. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010742
Stathopoulos D, Ekvall Hansson E, Stigmar K. Exploring the Environment behind In-Patient Falls and Their Relation to Hospital Overcrowdedness—A Register-Based Observational Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(20):10742. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010742
Chicago/Turabian StyleStathopoulos, Dimitrios, Eva Ekvall Hansson, and Kjerstin Stigmar. 2021. "Exploring the Environment behind In-Patient Falls and Their Relation to Hospital Overcrowdedness—A Register-Based Observational Study" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 20: 10742. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010742