Margarita Enriquez de Luna Rodriguez

• Agencia Sanitaria Costa del Sol

Aims To analyse the profile of patients suffering from falls in the hospital environment. Method Longitudinal study, prospective follow-up of a cohort of patients recruited from May 2014 to March 2016. Medical, surgical and intensive care units of 5 acute hospitals of the Community of Andalusia participated. Patients older than 16 years were inclu...

Aims: To analyse the profile of patients suffering from falls in the hospital environment. Method: Longitudinal study, prospective follow-up of a cohort of patients recruited from May 2014 to March 2016. Medical, surgical and intensive care units of 5 acute hospitals of the Community of Andalusia participated. Patients older than 16 years were i...

Objectives Falls are an important adverse event among institutionalised persons. It is in this clinical setting where falls occur more frequently than in any other, despite the measures commonly taken to prevent them. This study aimed to determine the characteristics of a typical institutionalised elderly patient who suffers a fall and to describe...

Aim of the study: The main objective of this work is the development and psychometric validation of an instrument to evaluate nurses' adherence to the main recommendations issued for preventing pressure ulcers. Material and methods: An instrument was designed based on the main recommendations for the prevention of pressure ulcers published in va...

Background Falls are major adverse events in hospitals. The appropriateness of using risk assessment instruments for falls in hospitals has recently been questioned, although the research performed in this respect presents some methodological shortcomings. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the accuracy of the Downton and STRATIFY inst...

To adapt to Spanish language the STRATIFY tool for clinical use in the Spanish-speaking World.

Aims: To adapt to Spanish language the STRATIFY tool for clinical use in the Spanish-speaking World. Method: A multicenter, 2 care settings cross-sectional study cultural adaptation study in acute care hospitals and nursing homes was performed in Andalusia during 2014. The adaptation process was divided into 4 stages: translation, back-translati...

The application of screening tools to detect the risk of falls in hospitalized patients is in general use. During the development of a systematic review a serious disparity in three items of the Spanish version of the Downton index was detected, compared to the original version. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of this error and to...

To evaluate the accuracy of the STRATIFY tool in detecting and predicting fall risk in acute-care hospitals and nursing homes for the older people. Falls are the predominant cause of injury in people aged over 65 years. Testing the falls risk-assessment tools in settings other than those for which they were originally developed obtained conflicting...

Background Falls are a serious problem for hospitalized patients, reducing the duration and quality of life. It is estimated that over 84% of all adverse events in hospitalized patients are related to falls. Some fall risk assessment tools have been developed and tested in environments other than those for which they were developed with serious val...

AimsTo identify the predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors of hand hygiene behaviour of healthcare staff, and to determine the prevalence of hand washing in hospitals.Material and methodsUsing the PRECEDE methodology and techniques of non-participant observation and questionnaires, a behavioural diagnosis was made of the factors that favour...

To identify the predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors of hand hygiene behaviour of healthcare staff, and to determine the prevalence of hand washing in hospitals. Using the PRECEDE methodology and techniques of non-participant observation and questionnaires, a behavioural diagnosis was made of the factors that favour and hinder the practic...