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It takes a village to prevent falls: reconceptualizing fall prevention and management for older …


DA Ganz, GE Alkema, S Wu - Injury Prevention, 2008 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Systematic evidence reviews support the efficacy of physical activity programs
and multifactorial strategies for fall prevention. However, community settings
in which fall prevention programs occur often differ substantially from the ...
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Older persons' perception of risk of falling: implications for fall-prevention campaigns


K Hughes, E van Beurden, EG Eakin, LM … - American Journal of Public Health, 2008 - Am Public Health Assoc
Karen L. Hughes and Beth Newman are with the School of Public Health and
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of
Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia. Eric van Beurden and Elizabeth ...
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What do community-dwelling Caucasian and South Asian 60-70 year olds think about exercise …

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M Horne, S Speed, D Skelton, C Todd - Age and Ageing, 2008 - Br Geriatrics Soc
Background: strategies to prevent falls often recommend regular exercise.
However, 40% of over 50s in the UK report less physical activity than is
recommended. Even higher rates of sedentary behaviour have been reported ...
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Process factors explaining the ineffectiveness of a multidisciplinary fall prevention …


MHC Bleijlevens, MRC Hendriks, J van … - BMC Public Health, 2008 - biomedcentral.com
Our fall prevention programme comprised a medical and occupational-therapy
assessment, resulting in recommendations and/or referrals to other services if
indicated. We used self-administered questionnaires, structured telephone ...
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Preventing Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults


CR Carpenter - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
This is a systematic review abstract, a regular feature of the Annals'
Evidenced-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM) series. Each features an abstract of a
systematic review from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a ...
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[PDF] A simple gait-stabilizing device reduces outdoor falls and nonserious injurious falls in fall- …


FE McKiernan - J Am Geriatr Soc, 2005 - calgaryhealthregion.ca
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether Yaktrax Walker (YW), a nonmedical
gait-stabilizing device, prevents out- door falls and injurious falls in
fall-prone older people dur- ing the winter. DESIGN: Prospective, ...
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Effect of a Practice Guideline for Emergency Department Care of Falls in Elder Patients on …


LJ Baraff, TJ Lee, S Kader, D Penna - Academic emergency medicine, 1999 - interscience.wiley.com
Objective: To determine the effect of a practice guideline for the ED management
of falls in community-dwelling elders on selected health outcomes. Methods: The
experimental design was a pre-post-intervention comparison with one-year ...
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Effect of dissemination of evidence in reducing injuries from falls

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ME Tinetti, DI Baker, M King, M Gottschalk, … - The New England journal of medicine, 2008 - nejm.highwire.org
Methods Using a nonrandomized design, we compared rates of injuries from falls
in a region of Connecticut where clinicians had been exposed to interventions to
change clinical practice (intervention region) and in a region where ...
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Multifactorial assessment and targeted intervention for preventing falls and injuries among …

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S Gates, SE Lamb, JD Fisher, MW Cooke, YH … - British Medical Journal, 2007 - bmj.com
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to make your experience on this site better. ... Objective To evaluate the ...
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The costs of fatal and non-fatal falls among older adults

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JA Stevens, PS Corso, EA Finkelstein, TR … - Injury Prevention, 2006 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Methods: Incidence data came from the 2000 National Vital Statistics System,
2001 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, 2000
Health Care Utilization Program National Inpatient Sample, and 1999 Medical ...
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