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Risk Factors of Recurrent Falls Among Older Adults Admitted to the Trauma Surgery Department

Falls affect more than 29 million American adults ages ≥65 years annually. Many older adults experience recurrent falls requiring medical attention. These recurrent falls may be prevented through screening and intervention. In 2014 to 2015, records for 199 older adult patients admitted from a major...

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Autores principales: Curran-Groome, William, Klein, Gary, Miller, Stanton B., Hui, Azor, Wilson, Jordan S., Kuoiloi, Chol, Masarapu, Venkata, Alabd, Andre, Mascaro, Toni, Logan, Gideon, Lubeck, Jonathan
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2151459320943165
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author Curran-Groome, William
Klein, Gary
Miller, Stanton B.
Hui, Azor
Wilson, Jordan S.
Kuoiloi, Chol
Masarapu, Venkata
Alabd, Andre
Mascaro, Toni
Logan, Gideon
Lubeck, Jonathan
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Klein, Gary
Miller, Stanton B.
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Wilson, Jordan S.
Kuoiloi, Chol
Masarapu, Venkata
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Logan, Gideon
Lubeck, Jonathan
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description Falls affect more than 29 million American adults ages ≥65 years annually. Many older adults experience recurrent falls requiring medical attention. These recurrent falls may be prevented through screening and intervention. In 2014 to 2015, records for 199 older adult patients admitted from a major urban teaching hospital’s emergency department were queried. Open-ended variables from clinicians’ notes were coded to supplement existing closed-ended variables. Of the 199 patients, 52 (26.1%) experienced one or more recurrent falls within 365 days after their initial fall. Half (50.0%) of all recurrent falls occurred within the first 90 days following discharge. A large proportion of recurrent falls among older adults appear to occur within a few months and are statistically related to identifiable risk factors. Prevention and intervention strategies, delivered either during treatment for an initial fall or upon discharge from an inpatient admission, may reduce the incidence of recurrent falls among this population.
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spelling pubmed-73858242020-08-10 Risk Factors of Recurrent Falls Among Older Adults Admitted to the Trauma Surgery Department Curran-Groome, William Klein, Gary Miller, Stanton B. Hui, Azor Wilson, Jordan S. Kuoiloi, Chol Masarapu, Venkata Alabd, Andre Mascaro, Toni Logan, Gideon Lubeck, Jonathan Geriatr Orthop Surg Rehabil Original Article Falls affect more than 29 million American adults ages ≥65 years annually. Many older adults experience recurrent falls requiring medical attention. These recurrent falls may be prevented through screening and intervention. In 2014 to 2015, records for 199 older adult patients admitted from a major urban teaching hospital’s emergency department were queried. Open-ended variables from clinicians’ notes were coded to supplement existing closed-ended variables. Of the 199 patients, 52 (26.1%) experienced one or more recurrent falls within 365 days after their initial fall. Half (50.0%) of all recurrent falls occurred within the first 90 days following discharge. A large proportion of recurrent falls among older adults appear to occur within a few months and are statistically related to identifiable risk factors. Prevention and intervention strategies, delivered either during treatment for an initial fall or upon discharge from an inpatient admission, may reduce the incidence of recurrent falls among this population. SAGE Publications 2020-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7385824/ /pubmed/32782850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2151459320943165 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Alabd, Andre
Mascaro, Toni
Logan, Gideon
Lubeck, Jonathan
Risk Factors of Recurrent Falls Among Older Adults Admitted to the Trauma Surgery Department
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2151459320943165
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