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. 2014 Dec;21(12):1380-5.
doi: 10.1111/acem.12523.

Injury due to mechanical falls: future directions in gender-specific surveillance, screening, and interventions in emergency department patients

Marna R Greenberg  1 , Bryan G Kane, Vicken Y Totten, Neha P Raukar, Elizabeth C Moore, Tracy Sanson, Robert D Barraco, Michael C Nguyen, Federico E Vaca
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Injury due to mechanical falls: future directions in gender-specific surveillance, screening, and interventions in emergency department patients

Marna R Greenberg et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Dec.

Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that among older adults (≥65 years), falls are the leading cause of injury-related death. Fall-related fractures among older women are more than twice as frequent as those for men. Gender-specific evidence-based fall prevention strategy and intervention studies show that improved patient-centered outcomes are elusive. There is a paucity of emergency medicine literature on the topic. As part of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) consensus conference on "Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes," a breakout group convened to generate a research agenda on priority questions to be answered on this topic. The consensus-based priority research agenda is presented in this article.

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