XXXX in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Qom Province, Iran, 2010-2012.

@entity1 @entity131 @entity308 @entity174 @entity173 @entity204 @entity734 @entity130
BACKGROUND: Falls and related @entity130 are common health problems in the elderly. @entity174 , brain and internal organ @entity130 and @entity204 are the common consequences of the falls, which result in @entity734 , decreased self-efficacy, fear of falling, @entity308 , restricted daily activities, hospitalization and admission to the nursing home and impose costs on the individual and the society. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the types of fall-related @entity130 and the related risk factors in the elderly population of Qom province, Iran. @entity1 AND METHODS: This retrospective study was performed on 424 elderly @entity1 (65 years and over) referred to Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Qom, Iran, due to falls between 2010 and 2012. The ICD-10 codes of external causes of injury from w00 to w19 related to falls were selected from the health information system of the hospital and demographic variables of the @entity1 and external causes of falls were extracted after accessing the files of the @entity1 . Data were analyzed using SPSS version 18 (SPSS Inc., USA). The duration of hospital stay and its relationship with underlying variables were investigated using t test and ANOVA. The level of significance was considered P < 0.05. RESULTS: Among 424 elderly @entity1 , 180 cases (42.45%) were male and the mean age of the @entity1 was 78.65    7.70 years. Fall on the same level from slipping, tripping, and stumbling was the most common external cause with 291 victims (68.60%), and @entity173 in 121 @entity1 (29.00%), intertrochanteric fracture in 112 @entity1 (26.90%), and @entity131 in 51 @entity1 (12.20%) were the most common causes of hospital stay. The mean hospital stay was 7.33    3.63 days. CONCLUSIONS: @entity174 and @entity131 were the most common causes of hospitalization, which resulted in the longest hospital stay and highest hospitalization costs in the elderly.
