Focusing on medications that increase the risk of falls in older adults

Shelley A Sternberg¹, Paula A Rochon^{2

3}, Jerry H Gurwitz⁴

Affiliations

¹ Maccabi Healthcare Services, Modiin, Israel. sternb_sh@mac.org.il.
² Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Departments of Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.

Editorial

Shelley A Sternberg et al. Eur Geriatr Med. 2021 Aug.

. 2021 Aug;12(4):671-672.

doi: 10.1007/s41999-021-00448-w.

Shelley A Sternberg¹, Paula A Rochon^{2

3}, Jerry H Gurwitz⁴

¹ Maccabi Healthcare Services, Modiin, Israel. sternb_sh@mac.org.il.
² Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Departments of Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Meyers Primary Care Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.

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Comment on

STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk): a Delphi study by the EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs.
Seppala LJ, Petrovic M, Ryg J, Bahat G, Topinkova E, Szczerbińska K, van der Cammen TJM, Hartikainen S, Ilhan B, Landi F, Morrissey Y, Mair A, Gutiérrez-Valencia M, Emmelot-Vonk MH, Mora MÁC, Denkinger M, Crome P, Jackson SHD, Correa-Pérez A, Knol W, Soulis G, Gudmundsson A, Ziere G, Wehling M, O'Mahony D, Cherubini A, van der Velde N. Seppala LJ, et al. Age Ageing. 2021 Jun 28;50(4):1189-1199. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa249. Age Ageing. 2021. PMID: 33349863 Free PMC article.

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