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ArticlePerspectives in health information managemen2017

An Electronic Health Record Data-driven Model for Identifying Older Adults at Risk of Unintentional Falls.

Adam Baus, Jeffrey Coben, Keith Zullig, Cecil Pollard, Charles Mullett, Henry Taylor, Jill Cochran, Traci Jarrett, Dustin Long

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Article in Perspectives in health information managemen, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Determining the Importance of Clinical Modalities for NeuroDegenerative Disorders and Risk of Patient Injury Using Machine Learning and Survival Analysis.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam BausWest Virginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, WV.
Jeffrey CobenWest Virginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, WV.
Keith ZulligVirginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, WV.
Cecil PollardVirginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, WV.
Charles MullettWest Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown, WV.
Henry TaylorJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.
Jill CochranWest Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, WV.
Traci JarrettWest Virginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, WV.
Dustin LongDepartment of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, AL.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

West Virginia IDEA-CTRU54GM104942 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI Sally Lynn Hodder · 2012 to 2026
$81.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Screening for risk of unintentional falls remains low in the primary care setting because of the time constraints of brief office visits. National studies suggest that physicians caring for older adults provide recommended fall risk screening only 30 to 37 percent of the time. Given prior success in developing methods for repurposing electronic health record data for the identification of fall risk, this study involves building a model in which electronic health record data could be applied for use in clinical decision support to bolster screening by proactively identifying patients for whom screening would be beneficial and targeting efforts specifically to those patients. The final model, consisting of priority and extended measures, demonstrates moderate discriminatory power, indicating that it could prove useful in a clinical setting for identifying patients at risk of falls. Focus group discussions reveal important contextual issues involving the use of fall-related data and provide direction for the development of health systems-level innovations for the use of electronic health record data for fall risk identification.

Indexed as

Accidental FallsAgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsBlood PressureBody Weights and MeasuresElectronic Health RecordsGeriatric AssessmentHumansRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsSex FactorsSocioeconomic Factorselectronic health record datapreventionscreeningunintentional falls

Identifiers

PMID29118679
PMCPMC5653950
OpenAlexW2985704422

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