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. 2013 Nov 19;185(17):E803–E810. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.130498

Table 1:

Characteristics of residents at 2 long-term care facilities (New Vista Care Home and Delta View) and at long-term care facilities in the Fraser Health Authority, and study residents with falls captured on video

Characteristic Total residents Residents with falls captured on video


New Vista Care Home*n = 180 Delta View*n = 191 Fraser Health Authorityn = 3895 Total n = 37 Head impact n = 11 No head impact n = 19 Mix of head impact and no head impact n = 7
Demographic

Age, yr, mean ± SD 80.8 ± 12.4 81.6 ± 10.3 83.2 ± 11.1 78.4 ± 8.2 77.7 ± 7.5 79.7 ± 6.5 75.7 ± 13.1

Female sex, no. (%) 120 (67) 116 (61) 2715 (69.7) 22 (59) 11 (100) 6 (32) 5 (71)

Disease diagnosis, no. (%)

Alzheimer disease 31 (17) 72 (38) 559 (14) 18 (49) 5 (45) 9 (47) 4 (57)

Diabetes 28 (16) 37 (19) 818 (21) 6 (16) 1 (9) 5 (26) 0

Cardiac arrhythmia 6 (3) 13 (7) 153 (4) 1 (3) 0 1 (5) 0

Hypertension 60 (33) 87 (46) 1662 (43) 12 (32) 5 (45) 6 (32) 1 (14)

Hypotension 1 (1) 0 27 (1) 0 0 0 0

Stroke 24 (13) 40 (21) 844 (22) 4 (11) 1 (9) 3 (16) 0

Parkinson disease 4 (2) 11 (6) 229 (6) 1 (3) 0 0 1 (14)

COPD 15 (8) 17 (9) 407 (10) 2 (5) 1 (9) 1 (5) 0

Note: COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, SD = standard deviation.

*

Data summarize characteristics of all residents with electronic medical records during 2010.

Data for 2010 from residents at 35 long-term care facilities owned and operated by the Fraser Health Authority.

Data are from the 37 (of 133) residents with falls captured on video who provided written consent to access their medical records.