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Community falls prevention for people who call an emergency ambulance after a fall
— randomised controlled trial | | Author(s) | Philippa A Logan, C A C Coupland, J R F Gladman |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 340, no 7755, 15 May 2010 |
| Pages | p 1070 |
| Source | www.bmj.com BMJ2010;340:c2102 |
| Keywords | Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Rehabilitation ; Multi disciplinary ; Clinical surveys ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Can a rehabilitation service to prevent falls in the community reduce the rate of falls in people who fall and call an emergency ambulance but are not taken to hospital? This article is a summary of a paper on bmj.com of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) which recruited 204 people aged over 60 who lived at home or in residential care, 102 in each group. Controls received health and social services as usual. Participants had reviews of drugs and blood pressure and were referred when appropriate; at home, they were offered training in strength and balance, removal of potential hazards, and provision of aids, and in community centres, they were offered sessions on falls prevention. During a 12 month follow-up, 956 falls were reported, of which 649 were in the control group (84.5 person years) and 307 in the intervention group (88.6 person years). The incidence of falls per year was 3.46 in the intervention group and 7.68 in the control group. This community-based multidisciplinary falls prevention service significantly reduced the rate of falls. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100520205 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LK2: LM: 3DM: 3G: 3J * |
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