• J Spec Pediatr Nurs · Jan 2009

    The Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale: a case-control study.

    • Deborah Hill-Rodriguez, Patricia R Messmer, Phoebe D Williams, Richard A Zeller, Arthur R Williams, Maria Wood, and Marianne Henry.
    • Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.
    • J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2009 Jan 1;14(1):22-32.

    PurposeThe purpose of this descriptive study was to assess whether the Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale (HDFS) identifies hospitalized pediatric patients at high risk for falls.Design And MethodsThe study was a matched case-control design. A chart review of 153 pediatric cases who fell and 153 controls who did not fall were pair-matched by age, gender, and diagnosis.ResultsHigh-risk patients fell almost twice as often as low-risk patients (odds ratio 1.87, confidence interval = 1.01, 3.53, p = .03).Practice ImplicationsA Falls Prevention Pediatric Program with the HDFS tool addresses the Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals, but further research is needed to examine HDFS sensitivity-specificity.

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