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Falls are one of the most frequently occurring adverse events that impact upon the recovery of older hospital inpatients. Falls can threaten both immediate and longer-term health and independence. There is need to identify cost-effective means for preventing falls in hospitals. Hospital-based falls ...
Podcast (24:21) USPSTF Recommendation: Calcium and Vitamin D to Prevent Fractures and Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Adults 1x 0:00 / 0:00 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and...
If yes, when did you fall?” and “Have you been hospitalized for any reason in the past six months? If yes, when were you hospitalized?” Falls were defined as “unintentionally coming to rest on the
Outcome Measures Six binary outcomes including mortality; hospitalization: number of individuals admitted to the hospital (eg, inpatient hospitalization, ≥24-hour hospitalization); fallers: people who fell at least once; fallers with multiple falls: people who fell at least twice; injurious fallers...
We use a quasi difference-in-difference approach to examine whether the 2006 relaxation of constraints on patient choice of hospital in the English National Health Service (NHS) affected waiting times inequalities for three common elective treatments (coronary bypass, hip replacement and knee replacement...
34 Our study also identified a similar pattern to that identified in a study from Hong Kong that showed a significant increase in fall-related admission to hospital in both older and younger populations since 2005.39 Finally, despite the fact that we examined the burden of falls in older ...
Gene-based GWAS analysis was carried out with MAGMA 1.621using the default settings implemented in FUMA65. The analysis was performed using the falls GWAS summary statistics as input file where each SNPs were assigned to a gene using the NCBI 37.3 gene definition. First, each individual SNP in...
delayed or inadequate fluid resuscitation, and delays in source control. Reviewers also identified procedure-related complications, adverse reactions to medications or errors in administration of medications, in-hospital falls, venous thromboembolism associated with inadequate prophylaxis, and hospital-acquired ...
There are few works focused on the prediction of falls or fall risk assessment, in addition to being carried out in the hospital using databases with medical records [48]. On the contrary, this research allows the prediction of fall risk in older adults based on the evaluation of their gait...