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To evaluate the accuracy of the inpatient fall risk screening tool and to identify the most critical fall risk factors in inpatients.

Variations exist in several screening tools applied in acute care hospitals for examining risk factors for falls and identifying high‐risk inpatients.

Secondary data analysis.

A subset of inpatient data for the period from June 2011–June 2014 was extracted from the nursing information system and adverse event reporting system of an 818‐bed teaching medical centre in Taipei. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, receiver operating characteristic curve analysis and logistic regression analysis.

During the study period, 205 fallers and 37,232 nonfallers were identified. The results revealed that the inpatient fall risk screening tool (cut‐off point of ≥3) had a low sensitivity level (60%), satisfactory specificity (87%), a positive …