title: Improving inpatient fall prevention strategies using interactive data repository information system.
abstract: Observing the pattern changes of inpatient fall and validating the Fall Prevention Tool Kit (FPTK) are essential for developing fall prevention strategies. However, the work requires the collection, calculation, and comparison of large amount of data. The information is often scattered in diverse information systems and lack of integration, which makes the work difficult and often neglected. This study demonstrates the development of an Interactive Data Repository System (IDRS) and uses it in the analysis of the pattern changes of inpatient fall within the institute, and validates efficiency of the FPTK across time. This study collected the incident data of year 2011 and compared it with the previous analysis in 2001. The result shows that reasons for patient fall had turned from physical disability to impaired conscious or cognition. The scoring result may be too sensitive in identifying patient falls. Patients with high scores needed to reinforce in functional strength.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Lichin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hui-Chu
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Management, Tamkang University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hung-Chang
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung /Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yufang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.affiliation: Information Systems Office, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Rung-Ji
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hsiu-Yun
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ching-Ting
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei/Taiwan.
authors.forename: Feipei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D013624:Taiwan; D014584:User-Computer Interface