Fall History Is the Only Morse Fall Scale Item That Differentiates Nursing Home Residents Who Fall From Those Who Do Not.

Key Points

• To determine which items on the Morse Fall Scale effectively differentiate between nursing home residents who fall and those who do not.
• Observational analysis of fall incidents among nursing home residents.
• Comparison of Morse Fall Scale items between fallers and non-fallers.
• Fall history was the only differentiated item on the Morse Fall Scale.
• Other Morse Fall Scale items showed little variation in the nursing home resident population.

Abstract