title: Evaluation of falls by inpatients in an acute care hospital in Korea using the Morse Fall Scale.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the cut-off values of the Korean version of the Morse Fall Scale (MFS-K) that would be most useful in identifying hospitalized patients at risk of falls in an acute-care setting in Korea. This study was conducted using the medical records of 66 patients who fell and 100 patients who did not fall (no-fall patients) sampled from inpatients hospitalized at a tertiary acute-care hospital in Seoul during the period from 1 January to 30 November 2009. The optimal cut-off point for the MFS-K was found to be 45 points, which produced an acceptable sensitivity and a fairly good specificity, negative predictive value and accuracy. The highest peak on the receiver operating characteristic curve was a cut-off score of 45 points in the MFS-K. Further research needs to be performed to determine the optimal cut-off score according to subjects' conditions through daily measurement with the MFS in medical or surgical patients who are relatively homogeneous in terms of individual and disease-related factors.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Clinical Nursing Science, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Yung Hee
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.forename: Myung Sook
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: In Gak
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Yoen Yi
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Mi Ra
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Kyunghee
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sungho
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Won
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012189:Retrospective Studies
keywords: accidental; falls; inpatients; instruments