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Patients with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency benefit from multifactorial intervention
— a randomised controlled trial | | Author(s) | John Davison, John Bond, Pamela Dawson |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 34, no 2, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 162-168 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oupjournals.org |
| Keywords | Falls ; Accident & emergency depts ; Accident prevention ; Preventative medicine ; Therapy ; Longitudinal surveys ; Newcastle upon Tyne ; North Tyneside. |
| Annotation | Of 313 cognitively intact men and women aged 65+ presenting to Accident & Emergency (A&E) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Tyneside with a fall or fall-related injury and at least one additional fall in the preceding year, 159 were randomised for assessment and intervention, and 154 to conventional care. There were 36% fewer falls in the intervention group. The proportion of subjects continuing to fall (65%, 94/144) compared with 68% (102/149) in the conventional care group. The number of fall-related attendances and hospital admissions did not differ between the groups. Duration of hospital admission was reduced and falls efficacy was better in the intervention group. While multifactorial intervention is effective in reducing the fall burden in cognitively intact older people with recurrent falls attending A&E, it has not reduced the proportion of subjects still falling. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050505204 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LD6: OQ: LK2: LO: 3J: 86A: 86B |
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