Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals

Objective: To determine whether locally adapting a falls risk factor assessment tool results in an instrument with clinimetric properties sufficient to support an acute hospital's falls prevention program. Design: Prospective cohort study of predictive validity and observational investigation o...

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Main Authors: Walsh, W., Hill, Keith, Bennell, K., Vu, M., Haines, T.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37389
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author Walsh, W.
Hill, Keith
Bennell, K.
Vu, M.
Haines, T.
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Hill, Keith
Bennell, K.
Vu, M.
Haines, T.
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description Objective: To determine whether locally adapting a falls risk factor assessment tool results in an instrument with clinimetric properties sufficient to support an acute hospital's falls prevention program. Design: Prospective cohort study of predictive validity and observational investigation of intra- and inter-rater reliability. Setting Acute wards in two large hospitals in Melbourne, Australia. Participants: One hundred and thirty acute hospital inpatients participated in the predictive accuracy evaluation, with 25 and 35 inpatients used for the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability analyses, respectively. Intervention(s): To develop a falls risk screen and assessment instrument through local adaptation of an existing tool. Clinimetric property analysis of new instrument (Western Health Falls Risk Assessment, WHeFRA) and comparison with ‘gold standard tool’ (STRATIFY). Main Outcome Measures: Fallers, falls and falls per 1000 bed days. Sensitivity (Sens), specificity (Spec), Youden Index (YI) and these three statistics based on event rate of falls (SensER, SpecER and YIER), were calculated to determine predictive accuracy. Reliability was determined using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), weighted kappa and signed rank test. Results: Seven participants (5.4%) fell, with 14 falls (fall rate: 10.7 falls per 1000 patient bed days). The WHeFRA instrument was significantly more accurate at predicting fallers and the rate of falls than the STRATIFY. Intra-rater reliability ICC (95% confidence intervals) for WHeFRA screen was 0.94 (0.86–0.97) and inter-rater reliability was 0.78 (0.61–0.88). Conclusions: Local adaptation of an existing tool resulted in an instrument with favorable clinimetric properties and may be a viable procedure for facilitating falls prevention program development and implementation in acute hospital settings.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-373892017-09-13T16:08:57Z Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals Walsh, W. Hill, Keith Bennell, K. Vu, M. Haines, T. Objective: To determine whether locally adapting a falls risk factor assessment tool results in an instrument with clinimetric properties sufficient to support an acute hospital's falls prevention program. Design: Prospective cohort study of predictive validity and observational investigation of intra- and inter-rater reliability. Setting Acute wards in two large hospitals in Melbourne, Australia. Participants: One hundred and thirty acute hospital inpatients participated in the predictive accuracy evaluation, with 25 and 35 inpatients used for the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability analyses, respectively. Intervention(s): To develop a falls risk screen and assessment instrument through local adaptation of an existing tool. Clinimetric property analysis of new instrument (Western Health Falls Risk Assessment, WHeFRA) and comparison with ‘gold standard tool’ (STRATIFY). Main Outcome Measures: Fallers, falls and falls per 1000 bed days. Sensitivity (Sens), specificity (Spec), Youden Index (YI) and these three statistics based on event rate of falls (SensER, SpecER and YIER), were calculated to determine predictive accuracy. Reliability was determined using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), weighted kappa and signed rank test. Results: Seven participants (5.4%) fell, with 14 falls (fall rate: 10.7 falls per 1000 patient bed days). The WHeFRA instrument was significantly more accurate at predicting fallers and the rate of falls than the STRATIFY. Intra-rater reliability ICC (95% confidence intervals) for WHeFRA screen was 0.94 (0.86–0.97) and inter-rater reliability was 0.78 (0.61–0.88). Conclusions: Local adaptation of an existing tool resulted in an instrument with favorable clinimetric properties and may be a viable procedure for facilitating falls prevention program development and implementation in acute hospital settings. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37389 10.1093/intqhc/mzq075 Oxford University Press unknown
spellingShingle Walsh, W.
Hill, Keith
Bennell, K.
Vu, M.
Haines, T.
Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
title Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
title_full Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
title_fullStr Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
title_full_unstemmed Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
title_short Local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
title_sort local adaptation and evaluation of a falls risk prevention approach in acute hospitals
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37389