ACCURACY OF MINIMUM DATA SET FALL ASSESSMENTS IN LONG-TERM CARE RESIDENTS
Laura Graham, Yongmei Li, Chintan Dave, Michelle Odden · 2024
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Laura Graham and co-authors checked in 2024 how well a standard nursing-home assessment counts falls among long-term care residents in the Veterans Health system. Falls matter for safety and research, but the standard form is known to undercount them. The team built a rule-based text search of clinic notes to find falls.
The text method was checked against hand review of two hundred charts and proved highly accurate. Across more than forty-five thousand residents, it found nearly ten times as many falls as the standard form. That form caught only about three in ten of the text-found falls. The authors warn that research built on the form may misclassify fallers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Laura Graham, Yongmei Li, Chintan Dave, Michelle Odden |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |