ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2011
Conflicting trends in fall-related injury hospitalisations among older people: variations by injury type.
Article in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Risk Factors for In-Hospital Complications of Fall-Related Fractures among Older Chinese: A Retrospective Study.BioMed research international · 2016Trial
- Trends in hip fracture rates in Canada: an age-period-cohort analysis.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2013Trial
- The effect of walking on falls in older people: the 'Easy Steps to Health' randomized controlled trial study protocol.BMC public health · 2011Trial
- Medicare Fee-For-Service Spending for Fall Injury and Nonfall Events: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Fall Recognition Based on an IMU Wearable Device and Fall Verification through a Smart Speaker and the IoT.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- An Indoor Fall Monitoring System: Robust, Multistatic Radar Sensing and Explainable, Feature-Resonated Deep Neural Network.IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · 2023Article
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults: Are Routine Second cCT Scans Necessary?Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Fall-related attendance and associated hospitalisation of children and adolescents in Hong Kong: a 12-year retrospective study.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Sex-specific association between obesity and self-reported falls and injuries among community-dwelling Canadians aged 65 years and older.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2017Article
- Article
- Epidemiologic patterns of injuries treated at the emergency department of a Swedish medical center.Injury epidemiology · 2015Article
- Fall-related injuries among Canadian seniors, 2005-2013: an analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2015Article
- Association of polypharmacy with fall-related fractures in older Taiwanese people: age- and gender-specific analyses.BMJ open · 2014Article
- Fall-related emergency department admission: fall environment and settings and related injury patterns in 6357 patients with special emphasis on the elderly.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2014Article
- Prevalence of and factors associated with head impact during falls in older adults in long-term care.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2013Article
- The impact of decreasing U.S. hip fracture rates on future hip fracture estimates.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2013Article
- A decreasing trend in fall-related hip fracture incidence in Victoria, Australia.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
unlabelledDespite advances in prevention, fall-related hospitalisation rates among older people are still increasing. Rates between 1998/1999 and 2008/2009 for non-facture-related injuries increased by 6.1% while fracture injuries declined by -0.4%. Varying trends in rates of different injury types makes it difficult to provide a definitive explanation for these changes.
introductionDespite advances in fall prevention research and practice, the rate of fall-related hospitalisations continues to increase. However, hip fracture rates appear to be declining. An examination of trends in types of injuries that contribute to the overall fall injury rate is required to establish which injuries are driving the falls admission rate. The aim of this paper is to examine trends in fall-related injury hospital admissions by injury type in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
methodsA retrospective review of fall-related injury hospitalisations in NSW among individuals aged 65+ years, by injury type, was conducted from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2009. Direct age-standardised admission rates were calculated. Negative binomial regression was used to examine the statistical significance of changes in trend over time of different hospitalised fall-related injuries.
resultsThe fall-related hospitalisation rate increased by 1.7% each year (p < 0.0001; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.3-2.1%). However, the rate of fracture declined by -0.4% (p < 0.03; 95% CI, -0.8-0.0%); whereas, the non-fracture rate increased by 6.1% (p < 0.0001; 95% CI, 5.5-6.7%) annually. Rates for severe head injuries, rib and pelvic fracture increased while those for hip and forearm fracture declined.
conclusionsIt appears that while fall prevention efforts in NSW are not yet affecting the overall rate of injury hospitalisation, there has been a significant decline in the rates of some fractures. Opposing trends in the rates of other fracture admissions and a significant increase in the rate of non-fracture injuries associated with falls makes a definitive explanation for these changes difficult.
Indexed as
Identifiers
21161644What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.