TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - Technological prospecting of patents related to monitoring accidents due to falls in hospitals JO - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem A1 - Alves, Renata Camargo A1 - Colichi, Rosana Maria Barreto A1 - Lima, Silvana Andrea Molina SP - e20230084 EP - e20230084 VL - 77 IS - 1 N2 - OBJECTIVES: to map the production of technologies aimed at monitoring falls in a hospital environment protected by registered patents.

METHODS: a technological prospecting of international patents, with a quantitative approach, with search carried out between February and March 2022 in the Derwent Innovations Index database with descriptors fall, hospital, monitoring.

RESULTS: 212 patents were found, with the majority filed and published since 2010, by Tran B (9) and Cerner Innovation Inc (9), focused on health technology. Universities were responsible for 13% of deposits. There was a predominance of records from the United States (43.4%), China (21.7%) and Japan (12.3%), in addition to technological strategies classified as devices for the environment (80.7%) and for preventing falls (66.5%) as well as trend towards resources with multiple functionalities in the same technology.

CONCLUSIONS: the plurality of functions in the same device reflects the search for optimizing resources and the concern with comprehensive care.

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LA - pt SN - 0034-7167 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2023-0084 ID - ref1 ER -