Home Safety - Falls
- Effect of a Home-Based Exercise Program on Subsequent Falls Among Community-Dwelling High-Risk Older Adults After a Fall: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Liu-Ambrose T, Davis JC, Best JR, Dian L, Madden K, Cook W, Hsu CL, Khan KM.
- JAMA. 2019 Jun 4;321(21):2092-2100.
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Rationale for inclusion: A 12-month randomized trial looking at risk elderly patients with an intervention of a PT delivered home exercise program vs. usual care. This program significantly reduced the rate of subsequent falls.
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- Comparisons of Interventions for Preventing Falls in Older Adults: A systemic review and Meta-analysis
- Andrea C Tricco, Sonia M. Thomas, Areti A Veroniki
- JAMA. 2017 Nov 7;318(17):1687-1699.
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Rationale for Inclusion: Meta-analysis of fall prevention methods
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- Addition of a Non-immersive virtual reality component to treadmill training to reduce fall risk in older adults (v-time): a randomized controlled trial
- Anat Mirelman, lynn Rochester, Inbal Maiden, Silvia Del Din, Lisa Alcock, Freek Nieuwhof, Marcel Olde Rikkert, Bastiaan R Bloem, Elisa Pelosin, Laura Avanzino, Giovanni Abbruzzese, Kim Dockx, Esther Bekkers, Nir Giladi, Alice Nieuwboer, Jeffrey M Hausdorff
- Lancet. 2016 Sep 17;388(10050):1170-82.
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Rationale for Inclusion: Randomized Trial adding virtual reality to treadmill training with reduction in fall rates
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- Home modifications to reduce injuries from falls in the Home Injury Prevention Intervention (HIPI) study: a cluster-randomized controlled trial
- Michael D Keall, Nevil Pierse, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Chris Cunningham, Malcolm Cunningham, Jagadish Guria, Michael G Baker
- Lancet. 2015 Jan 17;385(9964):231-8.
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Rationale for Inclusion: Randomized Trial showing injury reduction with home modifications
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- Video Capture of the Circumstances of Falls in Elderly People Residing in Long-Term Care: An Observational Study
- Stephen N Robinovich, Fabio Feldman, Yijian Yang, Rebecca Schonnop, Pet Ming Leung, Thiago Sarraf, Jaonie Sims-Gould, Mari Loughin
- Lancet. 2013 Jan 5;381(9860):47-54.
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Rationale for Inclusion: Novel Video Analysis for mechanisms of falls
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- Prevention of falls and consequent injuries in elderly people.
- Kannus P, Sievänen H, Palvanen M, Järvinen T, Parkkari J.
- Lancet. 2005 Nov 26;366(9500):1885-93.
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Rationale for inclusion: Excellent review article on the causes, prevention studies, and injury patterns of falls in elderly patient.
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- A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community.
- Tinetti ME, Baker DI, McAvay G, Claus EB, Garrett P, Gottschalk M, Koch ML, Trainor K, Horwitz RI.
- N Engl J Med. 1994 Sep 29;331(13):821-7.
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Rationale for inclusion: Observational study using Australian government statistics on deaths caused by firearms (1979-2013) and compared changes in intentional firearm death rates before and after gun legislation reforms in 1996. After gun law reforms, firearm deaths decreased and there were no mass killings with firearms.
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