Data on 1,071 in-hospital falls at a large hospital in South Brazil from 2012 - 2017
This dataset contains information on 1,071 in-hopsital falls that occurred between 2012 and 2017 at Hospital Moinhos de Vento, a 497-bed institution located in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The reporting of falls in hospital settings is recognized as a prevention strategy for informing corrective actions with the aim of preventing future such events. To this end, this dataset contains a broad array of variables relating to each fall incident (note that not all years include each variable):
* Date of incident
* Birth decade of patient
* Age range of patient
* Sex of patient
* Weekday of incident
* Shift during which the incident ocurred
* Hospital department or location of incident
* Location or environment in which the incident ocurred
* Severity of incident
* Presence of companion at time of incident
* Fall risk level as measured by the Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool
* Involvement of medication associated with fall risk
* Whether a fall prevention protocol was implemented
* Type of injury incurred, if any
* Reason for incident
* Whether a restraint prescription was given
* Whether a physical therapy prescription was given
The data are presented as a single Excel XLSX file: hospital-fall-data-2012-2017.xlsx, separated into sheets according to year of data capture for the years 2012 - 2017.
Learning about the characteristics of these events and establishing a profile may contribute to the design of adequate prevention and improvement strategies that effectively reduce the risk of falls.
The project from which these data were extracted was approved by the institution’s research ethics committee (CAAE: 57679316.9.0000.5330 - approval 1.833.572).
