Expert System as Prevention of Falls in Medical Centers.

What is it about?

The topic of this work is the prevention of patient falls in medical centers focused on risk assessment. In this work, we want to introduce some basic terms about falls, define the 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 about 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.

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Photo by Daniele D'Andreti on Unsplash

Photo by Daniele D'Andreti on Unsplash

Why is it important?

In our work, we have dealt with the problem of risk assessment of patients’ falls in medical centers. When analyzing the issue, we have focused on qualitative analysis and qualitative evaluation of the risk of falling. As the main method, the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) has been successfully applied which has made it possible to design and create a tree structure suitable for risk analysis. We have also proposed a method to reduce the impact of the root causes that affect the potential occurrence of the patient’s fall. All these obtained findings have helped us to create and implement a rule-based expert system for medical personnel. Thus it is possible to specify what kinds of falls might endanger particular patients based e.g. on diseases they suffer from and to propose the appropriate countermeasures to reduce risk of the falls

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