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- Title
Validation of two risk-prediction models for recurrent falls in the first year after stroke: a prospective cohort study.
- Authors
WALSH, MARY E.; GALVIN, ROSE; BOLAND, FIONA; WILLIAMS, DAVID; HARBISON, JOSEPH A.; MURPHY, SEAN; COLLINS, RONAN; CROWE, MORGAN; MCCABE, DOMINICK J. H.; HORGAN, FRANCES
- Abstract
Background: several multivariable models have been derived to predict post-stroke falls. These require validation before integration into clinical practice. The aim of this study was to externally validate two prediction models for recurrent falls in the first year post-stroke using an Irish prospective cohort study. Methodology: stroke patients with planned home-discharges from five hospitals were recruited. Falls were recorded with monthly diaries and interviews 6 and 12 months post-discharge. Predictors for falls included in two risk-prediction models were assessed at discharge. Participants were classified into risk groups using these models. Model 1, incorporating inpatient falls history and balance, had a 6-month outcome. Model 2, incorporating inpatient near-falls history and upper limb function, had a 12-month outcome. Measures of calibration, discrimination (area under the curve (AUC)) and clinical utility (sensitivity/specificity) were calculated. Results: 128 participants (mean age = 68.6 years, SD = 13.3) were recruited. The fall status of 117 and 110 participants was available at 6 and 12 months, respectively. Seventeen and 28 participants experienced recurrent falls by these respective time points. Model 1 achieved an AUC = 0.56 (95% CI 0.46-0.67), sensitivity = 18.8% and specificity = 93.6%. Model 2 achieved AUC = 0.55 (95% CI 0.44-0.66), sensitivity = 51.9% and specificity = 58.7%. Model 1 showed no significant difference between predicted and observed events (risk ratio (RR) = 0.87, 95% CI 0.16-4.62). In contrast, model 2 significantly over-predicted fall events in the validation cohort (RR = 1.61, 95% CI 1.04-2.48). Conclusions: both models showed poor discrimination for predicting recurrent falls. A further large prospective cohort study would be required to derive a clinically useful falls-risk prediction model for a similar population.
- Subjects
IRELAND; RISK factors of falling down; DISEASE relapse; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE intervals; DISCRIMINANT analysis; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; HEALTH outcome assessment; PATIENTS; RISK assessment; STROKE; RELATIVE medical risk; DIARY (Literary form); STROKE patients; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Age & Ageing, 2017, Vol 46, Issue 4, p642
- ISSN
0002-0729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ageing/afw255