Trends and Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits for Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults, 2003-2010
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Shankar, Kalpana N.; Ganz, David A.; Liu, Shan W.
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Introduction: One third of older adults fall each year, and falls are costly to both the patient in terms ofmorbidity and mortality and to the health system. Given that falls are a preventable cause of injury, ourobjective was to understand the characteristics and trends of emergency department (ED) fall-relatedvisits among older adults. We hypothesize that falls among older adults are increasing and examinepotential factors associated with this rise, such as race, ethnicity, gender, insurance and geography.
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2017
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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health