title: The challenge of predicting patients at risk for falling: development of the Conley Scale.
abstract: Patient falls are an elusive clinical problem. The purpose of this project was to develop and evaluate a fall risk assessment scale for use in an acutely ill population. The Conley Scale demonstrates acceptable reliability, validity, sensitivity, and specificity, is quick and easy to use.
authors.affiliation: Maine Medical Center, Portland, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Conley
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Selvin
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity