{"title":"The relationship of urinary tract infections and falls in a nursing home.","authors":"Jacqueline Rhoads, Andrea Clayman, Susan Nelson","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between urinary tract infections and falls in a nursing home population. The incidence of falls in nursing homes is prevalent with the current data suggesting that each nursing home resident falls 1.6 times per year. The consequences of a fall can be devastating to the quality of life of the nursing home resident. Therefore, this study was designed to identify falls as the symptom of a urinary tract infection and to provide treatment. Over 75 patients in a 138 bed community nursing home were followed for 6 months. Data suggests that majority of those residents who had a history of a fall also had a UTI In addition; the study data shows that severely demented patients who fall have a higher probability of having a urinary tract infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":79399,"journal":{"name":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","volume":"15 1","pages":"22-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between urinary tract infections and falls in a nursing home population. The incidence of falls in nursing homes is prevalent with the current data suggesting that each nursing home resident falls 1.6 times per year. The consequences of a fall can be devastating to the quality of life of the nursing home resident. Therefore, this study was designed to identify falls as the symptom of a urinary tract infection and to provide treatment. Over 75 patients in a 138 bed community nursing home were followed for 6 months. Data suggests that majority of those residents who had a history of a fall also had a UTI In addition; the study data shows that severely demented patients who fall have a higher probability of having a urinary tract infection.
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