The context of care within the 30 individual studies varied substantially and spanned hospitalised and outpatient settings.
These IDB data show that hospitalised falls in the home setting classified as "fall/jump from greater height" were likely to constitute between 1.5% and 6.5% of all hospitalised falls in all settings for children.
Larger targeted studies, in the low CD4 count subgroup, in ambulant and hospitalised TB populations from different geographical settings are now required to validate this approach and clarify our findings.
In some settings, patients are routinely hospitalised, especially if MDR-TB is diagnosed.
With regard to treatment setting, 78.44% of patients received outpatient treatment at the STI clinic, 4% were treated at home, and 0.22% were hospitalised; 11.11% were treated in multiple settings.
The initial management of patients hospitalised with pneumonia has been under constant study in different settings during the past decades.
All nursing and medical staff participated in chart review of newly hospitalised patients, a policy that might not be practical in other settings.
A major limitation is that it was tested in a single well-characterised cohort of HIV-infected South African adults hospitalised for pneumonia, whereas it needs to be confirmed in other settings and in HIV-uninfected adults.
While previous studies have found PIPs detected with the STOPP criteria significantly associated with ADRs among hospitalised patients [ 21], our study extend the evidence on their use to detect ADRs across healthcare settings.
Limitations of this study include its sample of chronically ill patients hospitalised due to acute conditions which may limit the ability to transfer findings to other patient group and settings.
