Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Nursology, cilt.25, sa.2, ss.101-105, 2022 (Scopus)
Objective: This research was performed in order to evaluate inpatient falls, which were reported through the electronic incident reporting system in a university hospital. Methods: This research is a descriptive, retrospective study. The population of the study consists of the incident reporting registry, which was reported through the electronic incident reporting system between January 1, 2015, and June 30, 2017, in a university hospital in Istanbul, regarding the falls of 159 inpatients. In the research, no additional sample selection was made and the entire population was regarded as the sample. Institution permission and ethics committee approval was received before conducting the research. In the analysis of the data, “World Health Organization International Classification for Patient Safety and Severity Scale of Harm” was used to describe the severity of injury for patients. Results: The fall rate of patients among all reports was found to be 10.6%. It was determined that 73.6% of the patients were in the adult group, while 26.4% of them were in the pediatric group. It was identified that the patients fell mostly while being mobilized (78.6%) and in the ward (56%). When the factors that induced the fall of patients were examined; it was detected that 39% of the patients fell due to loss of balance-weakness, while 25.2% of them fell because of dizziness and 5.7% of them due to wet/slippery floor. It was noticed that any factors that caused patients to fall were not specified in 16.4% of the incident reports. It was determined that 34.6% of the patients were not injured, whereas 45.9% of them were harmed mildly and 1.9% of them were harmed severely by cause of falling. Conclusion: It has been found out that the patients fell mostly due to loss of balance, weakness, and dizziness during being mobilized in the ward. Incident reporting systems, which include all the information needed about patient falls, can provide an opportu-nity for corrective action for incidents that may occur due to falls.