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Safety of the hospital environment in terms of preventing falls on the part of the elderly: a descriptive study

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This is a quanMETHODStitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, conducted in a large teaching hospital that specializes in high complexity healthcare in the city of Curitiba, Paraná. The study was conducted in three units - in the wards of the Men's Medical Clinic, the Women's Medical Clinic and in General Surgery. The sample consisted of the evaluation of a single-use environment, involving 127 beds occupied by patients of 60 years or more, and the physical structure of collective use, during the period April to July 2013.

Data were collected by means of a checklist. In the individual use environment, which refers to the room or space for private use in a ward, the following safety variables were investigated: presence of bars on beds, locks on the wheels, a bell, an auxiliary light, locks in the sliding furniture, easy access to belongings, free access to the bathroom, use of non-slip footwear and the arrangement of furniture around the bed. To evaluate the physical structure of collective use, the checklist was based on NBR 9050/2004 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards(12) and considered the variables internal circulation, vertical circulation and restrooms. In order to support the recording of the physical environment, a digital photographic camera model S. PL120 was used.

Data were coded and organized using computer software Excel 2007, typed and submitted to conference twice to ensure the reliability of the results. For statistical analysis, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences - SPSS v.20.0 was used, and descriptive statistics (absolute and relative frequency) were employed in terms of the safety variables related to the physical structure of the collective use facilities. In order to ascertain the association between the dichotomic qualitative measures in terms of the safety of the environment for individual use and the occurrence of falls, we used the Fisher exact test, indicated for use with independent random samples. The results were considered statistically significant when p<0.05, as a safety margin of 95% being due to chance with a 5% chance of error. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the investigated institution under registry CAAE 14066113.2.0000.0096 opinion number 231,500.

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This study is a cross-section descriptive study conducted in large teaching multispeciality hospital in the city of Curitiba, Parana during The period of April to July 2013 .It was conducted in there's units namely Men's medical clinic ,Women's medical clinic and General Surgery.The research is conducted among people above 60 years older or elderly population consisting of 127 beds.This study was approved by the Ethics Committee under registry CAAE.

The physical structure in preventing fall like presence of bar on beds,locks on the wheels,a bell and auxiliary lights,locks in the sliding furniture, easy access to belongings, free access to bathroom, non-slip footwear, arrangement of furniture. The physical environment was recirded using digital photographic camera. The results were considered statistically significant when p <0.05. Here 5% of error occurred and 95% were safe for the patients.