Fall predictors in hospitalized patients living with cancer: a case-control study.

Purpose: To identify fall predictors and develop an assessment tool to be used for screening hospitalized cancer patients at risk for fall.

Methods: A retrospective case-control study was conducted in 2018 at a cancer center in Northern Italy. The study participants were 448 adult cancer patients admitted to the oncology ward from 2009 to 2013.

Italian Validation of the Chiba Interprofessional Competency Scale (CICS29).

Background And Aim Of The Work: The Chiba Inter-professional Competency Scale (CICS29) validated in several languages, it is a self-report instrument that investigates the degree of interprofessional collaboration in six areas: attitudes and beliefs of the professional; ability to manage a work group; actions to achieve goals; providing assistance that respects the patient; attitudes and behaviours that improve the cohesion of the working group; fulfilling or performing the own professional role. In addition to being recent, the scale investigates collaboration among all health professionals, and is not limited to specific professionals. The aim of the study was to validate the Italian version of CICS29.