FALL AND FALL RELATED INJURIES
Geriatric hospitalizations in fall-related injuries
... that differ from those of non-elderly adults because of their unique anatomical, physiologic, and behavioral characteristics. The effect of trauma would decrease both the ability to live an active lifestyle and the ...
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Consensus Recommendations for Surveillance of Falls and Fall-Related Injuries
... to Fall-Related Injuries Only some falls cause an injury serious enough to require medical treatment; many result in “near-misses” or in non-injury ...falls. Injuries from some falls manifest ...
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Development of an algorithm to identify fall-related injuries and costs in Medicare data
... identify fall- related ...and fall-related injuries, it is difficult to compare the results across studies since they involve different definition of falls, different information, and ...
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Characteristics of fall-related injuries attended by an ambulance in Sydney, Australia: a surveillance summary
... options related to falls, such as assessment, screen- ing and treatment, and to direct referrals to general practi- tioners or community health ...of fall-related injuries in the population, ...
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The cost of fall-related injuries among older people in NSW, 2006–07
... of fall-related ...with fall-related injuries to underpin the next iteration of the state falls prevention plan and to provide input for cost-benefit analyses of falls prevention ...
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Circumstances of fall-related injuries by age and gender among community-dwelling adults in the United States
... FI related to ladder use, with ...all fall-related injuries among middle-aged men (Incidence Rate ...severe injuries, and more effort is needed to understand the mechanisms of ladder ...
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<p>Association Between Arterial Stiffness, Frailty and Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults</p>
... Introduction Fall-related injuries are a main cause of morbidity and disability in older ...80-years-old fall at least once per year. 1 Every second patient who reported a fall incident ...
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Fall-Related Injuries in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Qom Province, Iran, 2010-2012
... Many risk factors are associated with falling, which are categorized as internal or environmental factors or per- sonal, nutritional, economic, social, drug, and medical status causes. Low light of the environment, ...
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Circumstances of falls and fall-related injuries among frail elderly under home care in China
... and fall-related injuries among frail elderly people under home ...2014. Fall circumstances and related injuries were characterized by detailed interviews and ...overall ...
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Savings in acute care costs if all older adults treated for fall-related injuries completed matter of balance
... Evidence-based fall prevention programs delivered in community settings and targeting older adults living independently are increasingly deployed throughout the ...for fall-related injuries ...
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Multiple component interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries among older people: systematic review and meta-analysis
... Methods: Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Cochrane, AMED, UK Clinical Research Network Study Portfolio, Current Controlled Trials register and Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials register were systematically ...
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Preventing Falls and Fall-Related Injuries in Hospitals
... in fall prevention research in all settings is outcomes ascertainment, which has been the subject of consensus guidance from PROFANE on the reporting of outcomes in fall prevention ...of fall ...
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Fall related injuries in a nursing home setting: is polypharmacy a risk factor?
... does not allow us to comment on fall risk factors, since the comparisons were between fallers sustaining and fall- ers not sustaining injuries. Second, because of the type of design adopted, we could ...
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Epidemiology, morbidity and mortality from fall-related injuries in the United Arab Emirates
... It is important to highlight that there are certain limitations in our study. Mortality was low (0.2%). It is possible that patients with more severe injuries may have died before arriving to the hospital. In ...
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Developing an Intervention for Fall-Related Injuries in Dementia (DIFRID): an integrated, mixed-methods approach
... The intervention that has been developed is novel in that it is tailored to the needs of people with dementia and addresses both rehabilitation and the prevention of future falls in people with dementia. While we are ...
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Final ACTION Contract Report. Using Nursing Practices and Health IT To Reduce Fall-Related Injuries
... At baseline, staff nurses reported that their fall prevention planning process could be improved. They reported that they would use a new CDS tool if it was easy to access and provided risk-specific intervention ...
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Ladder-related. fall injuries. Clare Bradley. August Key findings
... of injuries principally attributed to a fall from a ladder, excluding the multiple separations per case generated by inter-hospital transfers, injuries described as complications of medical care, ...
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THE SLIPPERY SLOPE of Work-Related Fall Injuries
... Related to safety footwear regulations, is the utilization of slip-resistant footwear, which works to improve the wearer’s coefficient of friction by improving the interaction between the shoe and the floor. A ...
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Work-related slip, trip and fall injuries in New Zealand
... Appendix 1 contains the various descriptors for the ICD WO1-W19 codes. Two points are worthy of note. First, the exclusions show that not all falls are included. Second diving and or jumping into water causing injury ...
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Fall Injuries in Residential Construction
... Note: Totals for major categories may include subcategories not shown separately. * indicates no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria. CFOI fatal injury counts exclude illness-related deaths ...
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