PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF FALLS RISK SCREENING TOOLS

Predictive accuracy of falls risk screening tools.

Accuracy of Timed Up and Go Test for screening risk of falls among community-dwelling elderly.

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of the Timed Up and Go Test (TUGT) for screening the risk of falls among community-dwelling elderly individuals. METHOD This is a prospective cohort study with a randomly by lots without reposition sample stratified by proportional partition in relation to gender involving 63 community-dwelling elderly individuals. Elderly individuals who reported having Pa...

predictive accuracy of nonstress test in high risk pregnancies

there are now several tests available that can assess fetal status. a series of 164 cases of high risk pregnancies were studied in order to assess predictive value of a nonstress test. the majority (36%) of patients complained about postdate pregnancy. a nonreactive test was identified in 24 of the patients (14.6%). fetal distress, low apgar score in 1 and 10 minutes after birth and mean of apg...

Accuracy of Nutritional Screening Tools in Assessing the Risk of Undernutrition in Hospitalized Children.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the predictive accuracy of screening tools for assessing nutritional risk in hospitalized children in developed countries. METHODS The study involved a systematic review of literature (MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central databases up to January 17, 2014) of studies on the diagnostic performance of pediatric nutritional screening tools. ...

Accuracy of Screening Tools for Pap Smears in General Practice.

BACKGROUND Data extraction tools (DETs) are increasingly being used for research and audit of general practice, despite their limitations.Objective This study explores the accuracy of Pap smear rates obtained with a DET compared to that of the Pap smear rate obtained with a manual file audit. METHOD A widely available DET was used to establish the rate of Pap smears in a large multi-general p...