Fall Related Attendance at an Emergency Department(ED) or Admission to Hospital
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Rate of falls admissions per year
Numerator
Number of people who had a fall resulting in an attendance to either an ED or hospital
Denominator
Number of people
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Falls in the previous year (yes/no), gender (male/female), frailty based on Electronic Frailty Index (fit, mild, moderate, severe), and socioeconomic status based on Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation of residence
Stratifications
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Hospital episode datasets
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Hollinghurst, R., Williams, N., Pedrick-Case, R., North, L., Long, S., Fry, R., & Hollinghurst, J. (2022). Annual risk of falls resulting in emergency department and hospital attendances for older people: an observational study of 781,081 individuals living in Wales (United Kingdom) including deprivation, frailty and dementia diagnoses between 2010 and 2020. Age and Ageing, 51(8), afac176.