Balance dysfunction the most significant cause of in-hospital falls in patients taking hypnotic drugs: A retrospective study - Balance dysfunction the most significant cause of in-hospital falls in patients taking hypnotic drugs

This study included 2840 patients taking hypnotics dug. Falls accidents were reported for 211 (7.4%) of 2860 inpatients taking hypnotic drugs. We analyzed to identify independent factors for falls, a decision tree algorithm was created using two divergence variables and classifying the patients into three groups. The SIDE levels were the initial divergence variable. Balance disorder was the initial divergence variable.