2023 Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages 3-11
【Objective】This study aimed to clarify the relationship between the mode of admission（planned/unplanned） and incidence of falls in an acute care hospital.
【Methods】 The participants included 10,778 inpatients admitted to the Asa Citizens Hospital between April 2021 and December 2021. Using our hospital’s incident report database, we recruited patients with falls in the hospital. We compared the incidence of falls in planned and unplanned inpatients.
【Results】There were 6,313 and 4,465 planned and unplanned inpatients, respectively. Of the 314 patients who suffered falls（2.9％）, 131（2.1％）and 183（4.1％）were planned and unplanned inpatients, respectively. The relative risk of falls in unplanned inpatients was 2.0 times higher than that in planned inpatients. The incidence of falls tended to increase in the elderly group in both the planned and unplanned hospitalizations. The incidence of falls was higher in unplanned inpatients than in planned inpatients, and the relative risk of falls was highest in the younger group（aged <65 years, 3.0 times）, followed by the early elderly group（aged 65 –74, 2.1 times）and the late elderly group（aged ≥75, 1.5 times）.
【Conclusions】 We clarified that the incidence of falls in acute care hospitals was higher in unplanned inpatients than in planned inpatients.
