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Older people and falls — a randomized controlled trial of a health visitor (HV) intervention
Author(s)	Paul Kingston, Mary Jones, Frank Lally
Journal title	Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, vol 11, no 3, August 2001
Pages	pp 209-214
Keywords	Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Health visitors ; Clinical surveys ; Staffordshire.
Annotation	A number of approaches have been found to be effective in preventing falls, including exercise and the combination of geriatric medicine and occupational therapy (OT) interventions. This paper tests a hypothesis that use of a health visitor (HV) intervention within five days of attending an accident and emergency department (A&E) with a fall would improve the medium-term self-reported functional status of older women who had fallen. Patients were selected from women aged 65 to 79 attending North Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust A&E who were subsequently discharged to home. Whilst most made a good recovery after their fall, the authors question how results of this study can be compared with other trials. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020214208 A
Classmark	OLF: LK2: QSH: 3G: 8ST
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