Development of Fall Risk Assessment Tool to Identify Injurious Falls

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Falls are the most popular adverse events occurred in a hospital. The aim of this study is to establish a risk assessment tool for injurious falls. The retrospective study of inpatients revealed that the most frequent major injuries were fount to be bone fractures and intracranial hemorrhages. Among various risk factors, risk scores for falls and bone fractures were most closely associated with both bone fractures and intracranial hemorrhages. Risk assessment system established by integration of risk assessment scores for both fall and fracture could detect injurious falls in a reproducible fashion.