The challenge of predicting patients at risk for falling: development of the Conley Scale.
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.
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Maine Medical Center, Portland, USA.
Schultz
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Selvin
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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