Accidental Falls

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Spinolaminar breach": an important sign in cervical spinous process fractures. 
  • A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Randomized Control Trial of a Tailored, Multifactorial Program to Prevent Falls Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly. 
  • A Portable Platform for Evaluation of Visual Performance in Glaucoma Patients. 
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of the Association Between Anti-Hypertensive Classes and the Risk of Falls Among Older Adults. 
  • A comparison of the case-control and case-crossover designs for estimating medical costs of nonfatal fall-related injuries among older Americans. 
  • A counterview on data quality and the systematic review process for occupational injury interventions: are we missing the forest for the trees? 
  • A randomized controlled trial on Stroke telerehabilitation: The effects on falls self-efficacy and satisfaction with care. 
  • A randomized trial of a consultation service to reduce falls in nursing homes. 
  • A retrospective analysis of facial fracture etiologies. 
  • A retrospective review of lower extremity fracture care in patients with spinal cord injury. 
  • AC separation in a concert violinist. 
  • Accelerometer-Measured Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Incidence Rates of Falls in Older Women. 
  • Adverse events in hospice and palliative care: a pilot study to determine feasibility of collection and baseline rates. 
  • An engineering work analysis applied to patient falls in the nursing domain. 
  • Analysis of ankle deflection during a forward fall in snowboarding. 
  • Analysis of text from injury reports improves understanding of construction falls. 
  • Anti-hypertensive medications and injurious falls in an older population of low socioeconomic status: a nested case-control study. 
  • Assessing falls in the elderly: should we use simple screening tests or a comprehensive fall risk evaluation? 
  • Association Between the Severity of Diabetic Retinopathy and Falls in an Asian Population With Diabetes: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Association of Fast Visual Field Loss With Risk of Falling in Patients With Glaucoma. 
  • Association of Hearing Impairment With Incident Frailty and Falls in Older Adults. 
  • Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation. 
  • Association of Reduced eGFR and Albuminuria with Serious Fall Injuries among Older Adults. 
  • Association of Serious Fall Injuries among United States End Stage Kidney Disease Patients with Access to Kidney Transplantation. 
  • Atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation, fall risk, and outcomes in elderly patients. 
  • Authors' Reply to Kahlaee et al: "A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of the Association Between Anti-hypertensive Classes and the Risk of Falls Among Older Adults". 
  • Back stabber: ladder fall causing traumatic aortic transection. 
  • Balance performance on the postural stress test: comparison of young adults, healthy elderly, and fallers. 
  • Barriers to mobility during hospitalization from the perspectives of older patients and their nurses and physicians. 
  • Berg balance scale and outcome measures in acquired brain injury. 
  • Bilateral spontaneous concurrent rupture of the patellar tendon in a healthy man: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Blood Pressure, Antihypertensive Polypharmacy, Frailty, and Risk for Serious Fall Injuries Among Older Treated Adults With Hypertension. 
  • CONNECT for better fall prevention in nursing homes: results from a pilot intervention study. 
  • CONNECT for quality: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve fall prevention in nursing homes. 
  • CT guided drainage of a duodenal hematoma after trauma. 
  • CT-guided percutaneous drainage of a duodenal hematoma. 
  • Can historical and functional risk factors be used to predict fractures in community-dwelling older adults? development and validation of a clinical tool. 
  • Causes, clinical presentation, management, and outcomes of chronic subdural hematoma at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 
  • Challenges in residential fall prevention: insight from apprentice carpenters. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Characteristics of hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments. 
  • Chronic kidney disease and recurrent falls in nursing home residents: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Clinical Decision Support for Nurses: A Fall Risk and Prevention Example. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and History of Fall in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Treated with Oral Anticoagulation: Insights From the ARISTOTLE Trial. 
  • Clinical reasoning and advanced practice privileges enable physical therapist point-of-care decisions in the military health care system: 3 clinical cases. 
  • Cognitive work analysis to evaluate the problem of patient falls in an inpatient setting. 
  • Comparison of cost-effectiveness of vitamin D screening with that of universal supplementation in preventing falls in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Connecting the learners: improving uptake of a nursing home educational program by focusing on staff interactions. 
  • Consensus-based clinical practice recommendations for the examination and management of falls in patients with Parkinson's disease. 
  • Counseling for home-based walking and strength exercise in older primary care patients. 
  • Deaths from external causes of injury among construction workers in North Carolina, 1988-1994. 
  • Depressive symptomatology and fracture risk in community-dwelling older men and women. 
  • Development and pilot testing of computerized order entry algorithms for geriatric problems in nursing homes. 
  • Development of the St. Louis audit of fall risks at residential construction sites. 
  • Disability and home hazards and safety practices in US households. 
  • Do geriatric conditions increase risk of adverse drug reactions in ambulatory elders? Results from the VA GEM Drug Study. 
  • Do restraints prevent falls? 
  • Do restraints prevent falls? 
  • Does this adult patient have a blunt intra-abdominal injury? 
  • Effect of Falls on Frequency of Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality Risk (from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Study). 
  • Effect of Promoting High-Quality Staff Interactions on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes: A Cluster-Randomized Trial. 
  • Effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on the risk of fracture. 
  • Efficacy and safety of dutasteride in patients with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Efficacy and safety of enzalutamide in patients 75 years or older with chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from PREVAIL. 
  • Emergency department visits with facial fractures among children and adolescents: an analysis of profile and predictors of causes of injuries. 
  • Epidemiology of drug-disease interactions in older veteran nursing home residents. 
  • Epidemiology of facial fracture injuries. 
  • Evaluation of Postural Control in Patients with Glaucoma Using a Virtual Reality Environment. 
  • Evaluation of the Morse Fall Scale in hospitalised patients. 
  • Factors associated with falls in older adults with cancer: a validated model from the Cancer and Aging Research Group. 
  • Fall Risk and Utilization of Balance Training for Adults With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: Secondary Analysis From a Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Fall hazard control observed on residential construction sites. 
  • Fall prediction according to nurses' clinical judgment: differences between medical, surgical, and geriatric wards. 
  • Fall prediction in inpatients by bedside nurses using the St. Thomas's Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly Inpatients (STRATIFY) instrument: a multicenter study. 
  • Fall prevention among apprentice carpenters. 
  • Fall prevention and safety communication training for foremen: report of a pilot project designed to improve residential construction safety. 
  • Fall prevention through patient partnerships. 
  • Falls among union carpenters. 
  • Falls and Recurrent Falls among Adults in A Multi-ethnic Asian Population: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Falls and consequent injuries in hospitalized patients: effects of an interdisciplinary falls prevention program. 
  • Falls in African American and white community-dwelling elderly residents. 
  • Falls in an acute hospital and their relationship to restraint use. 
  • Falls in residential carpentry and drywall installation: findings from active injury surveillance with union carpenters. 
  • Falls in the elderly. 
  • Fear of falling and postural reactivity in patients with glaucoma. 
  • Femoral neck fracture in association with low-energy pelvic ring fractures in an elderly patient. 
  • Foot drop stimulation versus ankle foot orthosis after stroke: 30-week outcomes. 
  • Frequencies of falls in Swiss hospitals: concordance between nurses' estimates and fall incident reports. 
  • Functional Impairments Mediate Association Between Clinical Fracture Risk and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Women. 
  • Functional and anatomic correlation of splenic regeneration following embolization. 
  • Functional decline in older adults. 
  • Functional reach: predictive validity in a sample of elderly male veterans. 
  • Geriatric Assessment of Physical and Cognitive Functioning in a Diverse Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Pilot Study. 
  • Geriatric trauma G-60 falls with hip fractures: A pilot study of acute pain management using femoral nerve fascia iliac blocks. 
  • Hip and other osteoporotic fractures increase the risk of subsequent fractures in nursing home residents. 
  • How do physiological components of balance affect mobility in elderly men? 
  • How well are we controlling falls from height in construction? Experiences of union carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
  • In situ monitoring of health in older adults: technologies and issues. 
  • Incidence of bone loss, falls, and fractures after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity. 
  • Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care. 
  • Individual and Joint Effects of Pulse Pressure and Blood Pressure Treatment Intensity on Serious Adverse Events in the SPRINT Trial. 
  • Injuries from slips and trips in construction. 
  • Intensive glycemic control is not associated with fractures or falls in the ACCORD randomized trial. 
  • Interventions for preventing falls in acute- and chronic-care hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Laxative use and incident falls, fractures and change in bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative. 
  • Learning from falling. 
  • Low hemoglobin levels and recurrent falls in U.S. men and women: prospective findings from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort. 
  • Management Team Perceptions of Risks and Strategies for Preventing Falls Among Short-Stay Patients in Nursing Homes. 
  • Management of osteoporosis among home health and long-term care patients with a prior fracture. 
  • Management of simple thoracic injuries at a level I trauma centre: can primary health care system take over? 
  • Minimal trauma fractures: lifting the specter of misconduct by identifying risk factors and planning for prevention. 
  • National Quality Program Achieves Improvements in Safety Culture and Reduction in Preventable Harms in Community Hospitals. 
  • Non-fatal construction industry fall-related injuries treated in US emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Opioid use for noncancer pain and risk of fracture in adults: a nested case-control study using the general practice research database. 
  • Orthopaedic injuries from deer stands and their functional outcomes. 
  • Orthostatic hypotension associated with baroreceptor dysfunction: treatment approaches. 
  • Osteoporosis and depression: shedding more light upon a complex relationship. 
  • Outcomes of a consult fall prevention screening clinic. 
  • Outcomes of a revised apprentice carpenter fall prevention training curriculum. 
  • Pathological bone fractures in a 20-year old athletic male with multifocal solitary plasmacytoma of bone. 
  • Postural responses and effector factors in persons with unexplained falls: results and methodologic issues. 
  • Predicting falls: the role of mobility and nonphysical factors. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Screening, Risk Modification, and Physical Therapy to Prevent Falls Among the Elderly Recently Discharged From the Emergency Department to the Community: The Steps to Avoid Falls in the Elderly Study. 
  • Re: Axonal injury in head injuries with very short survival. 
  • Recent History of Serious Fall Injuries and Posttransplant Outcomes Among US Kidney Transplant Recipients. 
  • Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of Tai Chi and computerized balance training. Atlanta FICSIT Group. Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques. 
  • Refining the focus of construction injury surveillance. 
  • Reply to Drs Egeler, Jayakumar, and Ford. 
  • Resident Vignettes for Assessing Care Quality in Nursing Homes. 
  • Risks of a lifetime in construction part I: traumatic injuries. 
  • Round with purpose. 
  • Screening older patients at risk for falling during hospitalization. 
  • Selected as the best paper in the 1990s: Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of tai chi and computerized balance training. 
  • Serious Fall Injuries Before and After Initiation of Hemodialysis Among Older ESRD Patients in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • Serious Fall Injury History and Adverse Health Outcomes After Initiating Hemodialysis Among Older U.S. Adults. 
  • Severe dysphagia secondary to posterior C1-C3 instrumentation in a patient with atlantoaxial traumatic injury: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Short-Term Risk of Serious Fall Injuries in Older Adults Initiating and Intensifying Treatment With Antihypertensive Medication. 
  • Shoulder injuries during alpine skiing. 
  • Significant vestibular system impairment is common in a cohort of elderly patients referred for assessment of falls risk. 
  • Spine injuries associated with falls from hunting tree stands. 
  • Stepping to stability and fall prevention in adult psychiatric patients. 
  • Strong Relation Between Muscle Mass Determined by D3-creatine Dilution, Physical Performance, and Incidence of Falls and Mobility Limitations in a Prospective Cohort of Older Men. 
  • Study of Individualization and Bias in Nursing Home Fall Prevention Practices. 
  • Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 
  • Tailoring "best-of-breed" safety classification for patient fall voluntary reporting. 
  • Targeting Fall Risk in CKD. 
  • The costs of fatal and non-fatal falls among older adults. 
  • The effect of Tai Chi Quan and computerized balance training on postural stability in older subjects. Atlanta FICSIT Group. Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies on Intervention Techniques. 
  • The effects of ultrasound-guided adductor canal block versus femoral nerve block on quadriceps strength and fall risk: a blinded, randomized trial of volunteers. 
  • The epidemiology of emergency presentations for falls across Western Victoria, Australia. 
  • The relationship between obesity and injuries among U.S. adults. 
  • The risk of subsequent fractures in community-dwelling men and male veterans with hip fracture. 
  • Thrombosis of the brachial artery after closed dislocation of the elbow. 
  • Tool for evaluating research implementation challenges: a sense-making protocol for addressing implementation challenges in complex research settings. 
  • Total scapholunate dislocation with complete scaphoid extrusion: case report. 
  • Training and Interpreting Machine Learning Algorithms to Evaluate Fall Risk After Emergency Department Visits. 
  • Translating evidence-based falls prevention into clinical practice in nursing facilities: Results and lessons from a quality improvement collaborative. 
  • Trauma epidemiology in Puerto Rico: in-hospital morbidity and mortality from 2002 to 2011. 
  • Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Burden, Risk Factors, and Prevention. 
  • Traumatic posterior hip subluxation in American football. 
  • Traumatic subchondral fracture of the femoral head: a case report. 
  • Treatment of direct carotid-cavernous fistulas with flow diversion - does it work? 
  • Twenty years of workers' compensation costs due to falls from height among union carpenters, Washington state. 
  • Using a modified nominal group technique to elicit director of nursing input for an osteoporosis intervention. 
  • Visual impairment, causes of vision loss, and falls: the singapore malay eye study. 
  • Why walkers slip: shine is not a reliable cue for slippery ground. 
  • Work-related falls among union carpenters in Washington State before and after the Vertical Fall Arrest Standard. 
  • Work-related injuries among union drywall carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
  • [Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for the structure capacity of proximal femur during falling--(II). The effects of falling configuration and load locations on the structural capacity of the proximal femur]. 
  • [Near-total ear amputation: anatomical bases and management]. 
  • [Post doc in the USA - a report of experiences]. 
  • [Risk factors for falls and fall-related injuries in an acute care hospital--a retrospective case control study]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing