Risk assessment and incidence of falls in adult hospitalized patients.

Objectives: assess the risk of falls in adult hospitalized patients and verify the incidence of the event in this environment.

Method: cohort study, with approval by the Research Ethics Committee, which monitored 831 patients hospitalized at a university hospital. The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) was used to assess the risk and patients with high risk (≥45 points) were considered exposed to falls.

Analysis of risk prediction capability and validity of Morse Fall Scale Brazilian version.

Objective: To analyse the power to predict risk and verify the validity of the Morse Fall Scale - Brazilian version (MFS-B).

Method: This is a methodological, longitudinal study with 1487 adult patients of two university hospitals of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil conducted from November 2013 to March 2014. The MFS-B was used to assess the risk of falls.