title: [Risk factors for falls in hospitalized adult patients: an integrative review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Identifying risk factors for the occurrence of falls in hospitalized adult patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Integrative review carried out in the databases of LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE and Web of Science, including articles published between 1989 and 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-one articles were included in the final sample. Risk factors for falls presented in this review were related to patients (intrinsic), the hospital setting and the working process of health professionals, especially in nursing (extrinsic).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The systematic screening of risk factors for falls was identified as a contributing factor to the reduction of this injury, helping the non-occurrence of this event that, despite being preventable, can have serious consequences including death.
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, isismsevero@gmail.com.
authors: Isis Marques
authors: IM
authors: Severo
authors: School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, giovanacalcagno@furg.br.
authors: Miriam de Abreu
authors: Mde A
authors: Almeida
authors: Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Ricardo
authors: R
authors: Kuchenbecker
authors: School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, giovanacalcagno@furg.br.
authors: Débora Feijó Villas Boas
authors: DF
authors: Vieira
authors: Hospital de Clínicas of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Michele Elisa
authors: ME
authors: Weschenfelder
authors: Hospital de Clínicas of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Luciana Ramos Corrêa
authors: LR
authors: Pinto
authors: Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Cristini
authors: C
authors: Klein
authors: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Ana Paula de Oliveira
authors: AP
authors: Siqueira
authors: School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Bruna Paulsen
authors: BP
authors: Panato
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors