Ground-Level Falls at Skilled Nursing Facilities Are Associated With More Serious Lower Extremity Injuries Compared With Home.
Accidental Falls
/ prevention & control
Accidents, Home
/ statistics & numerical data
Aged
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
/ epidemiology
Female
Fractures, Bone
/ diagnosis
Health Services for the Aged
/ standards
Humans
Lower Extremity
/ injuries
Male
Quality Improvement
/ standards
Risk Assessment
/ methods
Risk Factors
Skilled Nursing Facilities
/ statistics & numerical data
Trauma Severity Indices
United States
Wounds and Injuries
/ classification
ground-level fall
lower extremity injury
skilled nursing facility
traumatic brain injury
Journal
The international journal of lower extremity wounds
ISSN: 1552-6941
Titre abrégé: Int J Low Extrem Wounds
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101128359
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
10
9
2019
medline:
17
4
2021
entrez:
10
9
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Ground-level falls (GLFs) are the number one cause of injury and death in the older adult population. We compared injury profiles of GLFs at SNFs to those at homes, hypothesizing that GLFs at SNFs would lead to higher risks for serious (AIS ≥ 3) traumatic brain injury (TBI) and lower extremity (LE) injuries compared to GLFs at home. The 2015-2016 Trauma Quality Improvement Program was used to compare patients sustaining GLFs at home and SNFs. From 15,873 patients sustaining GLFs, 14,306 (90.1%) occurred at home while 1,567 (9.9%) at SNFs. More patients with GLFs at SNFs were female, older, and had greater incidence of congestive heart failure, end-stage renal disease, and dementia (
Identifiants
pubmed: 31496322
doi: 10.1177/1534734619870393
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM