ArticleFrontiers in public health2019
How Do General Practitioners (GPs) Engage in Falls Prevention With Older People? A Pilot Survey of GPs in NHS England Suggests a Gap in Routine Practice to Address Falls Prevention.
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- When home is a dangerous place: the cost of falls among older people living in the community.PloS one · 2026Article
- Context makes a difference: a qualitative study exploring how to implement a multifactorial falls prevention intervention in the community.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Student-Led Falls Prevention Program for Community-Dwelling Older Adults in a Rural Community: A Pilot Study.The Australian journal of rural health · 2025Article
- Vitamin D, C-Reactive Protein, and Increased Fall Risk: A Genetic Epidemiological Study.Nutrients · 2024Observational
- Factors that affect the implementation of an integrated care programme for older people with different frailty levels: a qualitative study of commissioners and provider stakeholders.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Elderly Fall Detection Based on GCN-LSTM Multi-Task Learning Using Nursing Aids Integrated with Multi-Array Flexible Tactile Sensors.Biosensors · 2023Article
- A Qualitative Exploration of Proactive Falls Prevention by Canadian Primary Care Providers.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2022Article
- Implementing Falls Prevention in Primary Care: Barriers and Facilitators.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Article
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- 24-Months Cluster-Randomized Intervention Trial of a Targeted Fall Prevention Program in a Primary Care Setting.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Implementation and Evaluation of a Fall Risk Screening Strategy Among Frail Older Adults for the Primary Care Setting: A Study Protocol.Clinical interventions in aging · 2020Article
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Abstract
Falls are highly prevalent amongst older people and have substantial financial and social costs for health services and the community. Prevention of falls is the key to managing this threat to older people. General practitioners can identify older people at risk of falls on their caseloads. Once identified, actions can be taken to reduce the risk of falls by referring to appropriate services available in the community, such as allied health practitioners. However, the level of engagement in evidence based falls prevention by GPs is unknown. This study aimed to explore how British general practitioners (GPs) address falls prevention with older people, and to determine if there are any gaps in practice. As a pilot study, another aim was to test the feasibility of methods to survey GPs, if a larger survey was warranted from the findings. An on-line cross-sectional survey was distributed by email to all the Clinical Commissioning Groups in NHS England (
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