kjhp Korean Journal of Health Promotion Korean J Health Promot 2234-2141 2093-5676 The Korean Society of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 10.15384/kjhp.2016.16.3.180 kjhp-16-180 Original Article Systematic Review and Meta-analysis for Usefulness of Fall Risk Assessment Tools in Adult Inpatients ParkSeong-Hi 1 KimEun-Kyung 2 Department of Nursing, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Korea Department of Nursing, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea Corresponding author: Eun-Kyung Kim, PhD Department of Nursing, Chungbuk National University, 1 Chungdae-ro, Seowon-Gu, Cheongju 28644, Korea Tel: +82-43-249-1730, Fax: +82-43-266-1710 E-mail: kyung11@chungbuk.ac.kr 01 2016 20 01 2016 16 3 180 191 12052016 29082016 Copyright © 2016 The Korean Society of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 2016 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background

The aim of this study was to determine which fall-risk tool is most accurate for detecting and predicting adults in the hospital setting.

 Methods

A literature search was performed to identify all studies published between 1946 and 2014 from periodicals indexed in Ovid Medline, Embase, CINAHL, KoreaMed, NDSL and other databases, using the following keywords: ‘fall', ‘fall risk assessment', ‘fall screening', ‘mobility scale', and ‘risk assessment tool'. The QUADAS-2 was applied to assess the internal validity of the diagnostic studies. Fourteen studies were analyzed using meta-analysis with MetaDisc 1.4.

 Results

The result of comparing twelve tools was that the Morse Fall Scale (MFS) is the best tool for predicting falls for acute hospitalized adult patients. Six prospective validation studies using MFS with high methodological quality, involving 9,255 patients, were included. Meta-analysis finding of MFS was as follows; pooled sensitivity 0.73 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.68–0.78), pooled specificity 0.75 (95% CI: 0.74–0.76), area under the curve (AUC) of summary receiver operating characteristics (sROC) curve 0.79 (standard error [SE] = 0.02), and value of index Q∗ 0.72 (SE = 0.01) respectively.

 Conclusions

Falls in hospitalized adult patients can be effectively prevented using the MFS. These findings provide scientific evidence for using appropriate tool to prevent accidental falls and improve the safety of patients.

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Flow diagram of article selection.

Quality assessment results of the selected studies by QUADAS-2.

Predictive validity of Morse Fall Scale in selected studies.

Predictive validity of Hendrich Ⅱ Fall Risk Model in selected studies.

Predictive validity of St. Thomas Risk Assessment Tool in Falling elderly inpatients in selected studies.

Predictive validity of Conley Scale in selected studies.

Predictive validity of others fall risk assessment tools in selected studies.

Characteristics of selected studies