Prevention of falls in community-dwelling older adults

DA Ganz, NK Latham - New England journal of medicine, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Clinical Points Prevention of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Falls are
common among community-dwelling older adults and can lead to physical injury …

Multifactorial and multiple component interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community

S Hopewell, O Adedire, BJ Copsey… - Cochrane database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Falls and fall‐related injuries are common, particularly in those aged over 65,
with around one‐third of older people living in the community falling at least once a year …

A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries

S Bhasin, TM Gill, DB Reuben… - New England journal …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Injuries from falls are major contributors to complications and death in older
adults. Despite evidence from efficacy trials that many falls can be prevented, rates of falls …

Validation of a rule-based ICD-10-CM algorithm to detect fall injuries in Medicare data

DA Ganz, D Esserman, NK Latham… - The Journals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Diagnosis-code-based algorithms to identify fall injuries in Medicare data are
useful for ascertaining outcomes in interventional and observational studies. However, these …

Measurement of fall injury with health care system data and assessment of inclusiveness and validity of measurement models

L Min, M Tinetti, KM Langa, J Ha, N Alexander… - JAMA network …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance National injury surveillance systems use administrative data to collect
information about severe fall-related trauma and mortality. Measuring milder injuries in …

Engagement of older adults in STRIDE's multifactorial fall injury prevention intervention

SK McMahon, EJ Greene, N Latham… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Evidence‐based multifactorial fall prevention interventions in clinical practice
have been less effective than expected. One plausible reason is that older adults' …

GAPcare: the geriatric acute and post‐acute fall prevention intervention in the emergency department: preliminary data

EM Goldberg, SJ Marks, A Ilegbusi… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES We aimed to describe a new multidisciplinary team fall prevention intervention
for older adults who seek care in the emergency department (ED) after having a fall, assess …

Accounting for unequal cluster sizes in designing cluster randomized trials to detect treatment effect heterogeneity

G Tong, D Esserman, F Li - Statistics in Medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Unequal cluster sizes are common in cluster randomized trials (CRTs). While there are a
number of previous investigations studying the impact of unequal cluster sizes on the power …

Improved accuracy and efficiency of primary care fall risk screening of older adults using a machine learning approach

W Song, NK Latham, L Liu, HE Rice… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background While many falls are preventable, they remain a leading cause of injury and
death in older adults. Primary care clinics largely rely on screening questionnaires to identify …

Preventing fractures and falls: a limited role for calcium and vitamin D supplements?

HA Bischoff-Ferrari, S Bhasin, JAE Manson - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Vitamin D and calcium are key nutrients to support bone development in children and young
adults and to maintain muscle strength and neuromuscular coordination throughout the life …