Deans' stroke musings: Comparison of the psychometric properties of three commonly used fall risk assessment tools: A prospective observational study for stroke patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Comparison of the psychometric properties of three commonly used fall risk assessment tools: A prospective observational study for stroke patients

You do realize that survivors don't want to fall? Then do the fucking research that will prevent falls! This assessment crapola is useless for survivors!

Comparison of the psychometric properties of three commonly used fall risk assessment tools: A prospective observational study for stroke patients

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 29(6) , Pgs. 430-437.

NARIC Accession Number: J89498. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Arslan, Özge; Tosun, Zeynep.
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract:

Study identified the most reliable fall risk assessment tool among the Morse Fall Scale (MFS), Itaki Fall Risk Scale (Itaki FRS) and Hendrich II Fall Risk Model (HIIFRM) for hospitalized stroke patients. Data were obtained from 125 stroke patients. The fall risk and incidents of falling were monitored daily over the course of the patients’ stay at the hospital. The Functional Independence Measure, Itaki FRS, HIIFRM, and MFS were used for the study data. The fall risk of the patients was calculated by taking the median of all the fall risk assessments. The outcome measure was the patient’s fall during hospitalization. The differentiation between the fall risk tools was assessed with sensitivity-specificity analysis and the receiver operating characteristic curve. The mean age of the research participants was 71.47 years. It was determined that 9.6 percent of the patients fell at least once during the follow-up period, which was 8.66 days on average. The sensitivity and specificity rates of the fall risk assessment tools were respectively 75.0 percent and 63.7 percent for the Itaki FRS, 83.3 percent and 50.4 percent for the HIIFRM, and 91.7 percent and 73.5 percent for the MFS. The cutoff points on the tools were 14 for the Itaki FRS, 4.5 for the HIIFRM, and 66.2 for the MFS. The findings suggest that MFS is a more reliable tool than Itaki FRS or HIIFRM in determining fall risk in hospitalized stroke patients.
Descriptor Terms: EQUILIBRIUM, HOSPITALS, MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, POSTURE, STROKE.

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Citation: Arslan, Özge, Tosun, Zeynep. (2022). Comparison of the psychometric properties of three commonly used fall risk assessment tools: A prospective observational study for stroke patients. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 29(6), Pgs. 430-437. Retrieved 9/27/2022, from REHABDATA database.