Gostynski M
Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin, Universität Zürich.
Soz Praventivmed. 1991;36(6):341-5. doi: 10.1007/BF01368742.
Falls are frequent among elderly people, and are a still-underestimated medical problem with respect to causes and consequences. The present epidemiological study describes the experience from a 79-bed nursing home in the city of Zürich, regarding frequency, circumstances and consequences of falls. Over half of residents of the studied nursing home fell at least once during the study period of one year, and one third even suffered 3 or more falls. Dizziness, tripping and slipping were among the reasons given for falling. However, in one third of the cases the person involved was not able to specify the cause of the fall. Every fifth fall to injury or fracture, and every tenth fall to fall-related pain. The fall-related overall morbidity therefore amounted to 35.3%.
跌倒在老年人中很常见，并且在病因和后果方面仍是一个被低估的医学问题。本项流行病学研究描述了苏黎世市一家拥有79张床位的养老院在跌倒频率、情况及后果方面的情况。在为期一年的研究期间，超过一半的被研究养老院居民至少跌倒过一次，三分之一的人甚至跌倒3次或更多次。头晕、绊倒和滑倒都是跌倒的原因。然而，在三分之一的案例中，当事人无法明确跌倒原因。每五次跌倒中就有一次导致受伤或骨折，每十次跌倒中就有一次导致与跌倒相关的疼痛。因此，与跌倒相关的总体发病率为35.3%。
