SynthesisAging clinical and experimental research2021
Elderly patients and falls: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Multifactorial predictors of falls in older adults: a decade of data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Global and national burden of falls among individuals aged 55 years and older (1990-2021): analysis of the global burden of disease study 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Incidence and Determinants of Falls Following Hip and Knee Joint Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2025Review
- Sarcopenic obesity and history of falls in older Italian adults: associations according to different diagnostic combinations.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- A burden of nerve injury from a global perspective, 1990-2021: an analysis of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Causes and global, regional, and national burdens of traumatic brain injury from 1990 to 2019.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2024Article
- Investigating the biomechanics of falls in older adults in long-term care using a video camera: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- [Is hearing perception related to the occurrence of falls among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic? A longitudinal analysis].Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Augmented reality-based training versus standard training in improvement of balance, mobility and fall risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Differences in fall-related characteristics across cognitive disorders.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe predetermination of the risk for falls in elderly patients, who will have or had a surgery, enables one to carry out the protective/preventive interventions on this matter. The aim of this review was to provide an up-to-date meta-analysis with regard to falls in elderly surgical patients. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe studies, which were carried out on elderly patients between January 2009 and November 2019 and which investigated the risk factors for falls in elderly surgical patients, were screened on the databases of Google Scholar, Pubmed, Ovid, Cinahl through various combinations of keywords, such as "geriatrics", "aged", "surgery", "accidental falls" in English or Turkish, to determine the risk factors for the falls in elderly surgical patients.
resultsMeeting the study inclusion criteria, 18 studies were analyzed. Of these studies, three were retrospective, seven descriptive, two case-control, four cross-sectional, and two prospective. The kappa value of the general rate of agreement was found as 0.84. No publication bias found in the studies included (Kendall's tau b = 0.31; p = 0.07) in the meta-analysis based on the values calculated.
conclusionIn this meta-analysis, it was determined that the falls in elderly surgical patients were quite a prevalent public health problem, that the presence of chronic diseases and previous history of falls constituted an extremely high risk for the falls in elderly patients, and that the age or the presence of a gait-inhibiting condition did not constitute any risk for the falls in elderly patients.
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