Compared with usual care, exercise alone and various combinations of interventions were associated with lower risk for falls leading to injury, according to findings recently published in JAMA. “The ...

Overall, there is little variation in interventions used to prevent patient falls, despite different risk levels, according to a new data analysis from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The effects of a fall-focused pharmaceutical intervention program (FFPIP) on the clinical and economic outcomes of elderly patients who fall while residing in a rehabilitation center are described.

Objective The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials ...

Correspondence to Dr Sally Hopewell, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK; sally.hopewell{at}csm.ox.ac.uk Objective ...