Expert system as prevention of falls in medical centers

Abstract

The topicof this work is prevention of patient falls in medical centers focused on risk assessment. In this work we want to introduce some basic terms about falls, define risk of falls focused on qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods, define the main causes of falls and propose appropriate methods to eliminate the influences acting on the incidence of falls. Based on risk analysis we have designed an expert system, which provides information to healthcare professionals abou the potential risk factors affecting the incidence of falls among hospitalized patients, and directly proposes countermeasures to reduce these risk factors. SW implementation was solved using a freeware program EXSYS. This software can be distributed to individual departments in medical centers to facilitate the identification of possible causes of falls in patients.