Injurious falls
<p>Polypharmacy and injurious falls in older adults: a nationwide nested case-control study</p>
... of injurious falls increases by 2% for each additional drug, in a remarkably linear ...and injurious falls is in keeping with the results from a recent meta-analysis 24 and from a longitudinal ...
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Anti-hypertensive medications and injurious falls in an older population of low socioeconomic status: a nested case-control study
... with falls and adjusted for the appropriate variables in multivariate ...to falls were not available, we were unable to ascer- tain whether the falls were due to orthostatic hypotension resulting ...
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Identifying protective and risk factors for injurious falls in patients hospitalized for acute care: a retrospective case-control study
... for injurious fall may also differ ac- cording to fall prevention strategies in place, limiting the generalizability of our findings, though as described in methods above we included all possible risk factors for ...
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Definitions and methods of measuring and reporting on injurious falls in randomised controlled fall prevention trials: A systematic review
... of injurious falls or on injurious fallers, whereas others specified fractures or reported on medical care ...of injurious falls was not possible as data on the number of falls ...
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Relationship between location and activity in injurious falls: an exploratory study
... Our finding that a majority of the injurious falls took place outdoors is consistent with previous reports [5,29- 31]. Walking accounted for the largest proportion of the activities respondents were engaged ...
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Risk factors for recurrent injurious falls that require hospitalization for older adults with dementia: a population based study
... an injurious fall in the previous year prior to the index hos- pital admission with ...more injurious falls to determine risk factors for subsequent injurious falls after the first ...
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Community-dwelling older people with an injurious fall are likely to sustain new injurious falls within 5 years - a prospective long-term follow-up study
... for falls and the incidence rate of injurious falls was presented as the number of falls per 100 person years ...self-reported falls were included at their date of inclusion in the ...
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Injurious falls and subsequent adverse drug events among elderly - a Swedish population-based matched case-control study
... the injurious falls with and without ADE in the peak ...between injurious fall and ADE differs by age, where age-stratified analyses revealed a higher risk among the younger (aged 60–79 years) than ...
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Patient and system factors associated with unassisted and injurious falls in hospitals: an observational study
... Second, our data support a role for rehabilitation thera- pists on hospital fall-risk-reduction teams. The use of gait belts and other strategies for safe patient mobilization are emphasized in physical and occupational ...
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Factors Associated With Falls in Older Patients With Diffuse Polyneuropathy
... of falls may have underestimated the actual preva- ...for falls that cause injury, given the emotional effect of such events, and it is therefore reassuring that the findings in this study are sim- ilar ...
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Risk of head and traumatic brain injuries associated with antidepressant use among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer’s disease: a nationwide matched cohort study
... of falls [8, 9], injurious falls like fractures [9], and hip fractures ...persons, falls are the main causal factor for traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), whereas younger persons experience TBIs ...
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Prevalence of mild hyponatremia and its association with falls in older adults admitted to an emergency geriatric medicine unit (the MUPA unit)
... and injurious falls among pa- tients admitted to the MUPA ...and falls among patients in the MUPA Unit and performed specific geriatric ...and falls is very interesting, particularly in the ...
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Economic benefits of microprocessor controlled prosthetic knees: a modeling study
... death. Falls can be either medical, ...Medical falls can be minor, major, or fatal. Major injurious falls are associated with an admission to a medical ...
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Falls in the community: state of the science
... venting falls prevents ...for injurious falls, which would allow health care providers to target and intensify interventions to those most at risk for falls with ...of injurious ...
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The FLASSH study: protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating falls prevention after stroke and two sub-studies
... Stroke survivors aged forty-five years and over who have completed rehabilitation and have been discharged home will be eligible for the study if they have decreased balance or if they have fallen at any time during ...
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A protocol for an individualised, facilitated and sustainable approach to implementing current evidence in preventing falls in residential aged care facilities
... An action research approach will be used in the facilities as a key element to work towards achieving the project aims. In each RACF staff interested in falls prevention will be invited to join a falls ...
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Falls among the elderly
... person falls at least once a year. Falls lead to injuries, limiting the mobility of the ...of falls, serious fractures occur, which cause hospitalization and are the main cause of death due to ...of ...
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The design and development of a complex multifactorial falls assessment intervention for falls prevention : the Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT)
... practices in Devon were identified with support from the Comprehensive Local Research Network (now Clinical Research Networks) and regulatory approvals were ob- tained. Participant recruitment ran from July 2010 to March ...
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The design and development of a complex multifactorial falls assessment intervention for falls prevention: The Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT)
... PreFIT falls assessment does include questions to explore urinary incontinence in relation to any fall or near miss event, (‘whether any incontinence occurred before, during or after a ...
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The history of falls and the association of the timed up and go test to falls and near-falls in older adults with hip osteoarthritis
... Descriptive statistics were calculated for the prevalence of fall and near-falls, and compared among three TUG score categories: < 10 seconds, 10 – 13.99 sec and 14 sec or >. These categories represented the ...
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