Nursing Diagnosis Risk for falls: prevalence and clinical profile of hospitalized patients

OBJECTIVES: to identify the prevalence of the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for falls in the hospitalizations of adult patients in clinical and surgical units, to characterize the clinical profile and to identify the risk factors of the patients with this ND.METHOD: a cross-sectional study with 174 pa...

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Main Authors: Melissa de Freitas Luzia, Marco Antonio de Goes Victor, Amália de Fátima Lucena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-04-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692014000200262&lng=en&tlng=en