TABLE 5.

Fall Event Characteristics and Falls Per 1000 Admissions

				Hospital Used AVM to Monitor			Hospital Used AVM to Intervene
Fall Event Characteristics	All Falls During Study			Baseline	Intervention	P*	Baseline	Intervention	P*
Fall location, n = 66, n (%)						0.729			0.271
Bedside	27 (40.9)			6 (40.0)	9 (50.0)†		12 (41.4)	0 (0.00)
Not bedside	39 (59.1)			9 (60.0)	9 (50.0)		17 (58.6)	4 (100.0)
Bathroom	24 (36.4)
Chairside	13 (19.7)
Hallway	1 (1.5)
Room	1 (1.5)
Fall assistance, n = 65, n (%)						0.004			1.00
Unassisted	47 (72.3)			14 (100.0)	10 (55.6)		20 (69.0)	3 (75.0)
Assisted	18 (27.7)			0 (0.00)	8 (44.4)		9 (31.0)	1 (25.0)
Extent of harm, n = 66, n (%)						0.070			0.241
No harm	52 (78.8)			10 (66.7)	17 (94.4)		23 (79.3)	2 (50.0)
Harm	14 (21.2)			5 (33.3)	1 (5.6)		6 (20.7)	2 (50.0)
Actions taken due to fall, n = 66, n (%)
Increased observation	11 (16.7)			5 (33.3)	1 (5.6)	0.070	4 (13.8)	1 (25.0)	0.500
Imaging	9 (13.6)			3 (20.0)	2 (11.1)	0.639	4 (13.8)	0 (0.00)	1.00
Medication change	3 (4.5)			0	0	NA	3 (10.3)	0 (0.00)	1.00
Surgical procedure	1 (1.5)			0	0	NA	1 (3.4)	0 (0.00)	1.00

Falls/1000 Admissions‡	Baseline	Intervention	P §				P §			P §
Total falls/1000 admissions	8.83	5.53	0.136		3.34	6.07	0.109	13.37	3.67	0.028
Unassisted falls/1000 admissions	6.56	3.04	0.214		3.34	3.21	0.593	9.22	2.44	0.173
Assisted falls/1000 admissions	2.27	2.49	0.285		0.00	2.86	0.109	4.15	1.22	0.028
Injurious falls/1000 admissions	2.52	0.55	0.025		2.23	0.36	0.109	2.77	1.22	0.080

*Differences between baseline and intervention phases calculated using the Fisher exact test.

^†None of these bedside falls occurred among study patients.

^‡Two hospitals either did not report admissions or did not report fall event data and were removed from this analysis.

^§Differences between baseline and intervention phases calculated using the related-samples Wilcoxon signed ranks test.