Cummings Fall Scale
Compare two pediatric fall risk assessment tools im safe and humpty dumpty used at the same organization to determine if one is better able to predict which patients fall.
Cummings fall scale. In 2006 cummings sought to determine risk factors for inpatient pediatric falls for development of a frat cummings 2006. Short steps may shuffle stooped but able to lift head while walking may seek support from furniture while walking but with light touch for reassurance. Cummings scale is highly sensitive in identifying hospitalized children for either high risk low or no risk for falls neiman j et al 2011. Fall scale and hendrich ii fall risk model for use with pediatric populations both adult validated scales demonstrated poor reliability when ap plied to child fall risk razmus et al 2006.
This morse fall scale calculator aims to screen fall risk in all hospitalized patients and recommends the initiation of fall prevention procedures where adequate. A case matched study of 78 inpatients who fell and 78 controls was conducted and 28 factors were identified and incorporated into a 6 item tool called the cummings scale. The morse fall scale a validated and the most rigorous scale tested for adults has never been validated in children and is inappropriately being used by pediatric nurses to assess the fall risk of hospitalized pediatric patients. Sample of 59 fall encounters.
Retrospective data was obtained from patients admitted in 2014. The morse fall scale a validated and the most rigorous scale tested for adults has never been validated in children and is inappropriately being used by pediatric nurses to assess the fall risk of. Morse fall scale 29 414 morse fall scale modified 8 114 hendrich fall risk assessment 5 71 hendrich fall risk assessment modified 2 29 briggs fall risk assessment 2 29 conley scale 1 14 schmid fall risk assessment 1 14 schmid fall risk assessment modified 1 14 fall risk assessment tools. Identified six criteria with statistical significance for predicting falls.
Adult frats are often borrowed from to create tools for pediatric patients. 1 history of falling immediate or previous. The reliance of adult fall risk tools on identification of exceptions to normal adult human develop mental characteristics such as gait strength. There is more information on the risk factors involved in this fall screening tool available below the form.
However sustained improvements in prevention and quality of care include use of validated fall risk assessment tools frats. Morse fall scale weak gait. Each patient who experienced a fall during hospitalization was matched with two non fallers based on age and diagnosis.