Injury Due to Mechanical Falls: Future Directions in Gender-specific Surveillance, Screening, and Interventions in Emergency Department Patients.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-2014
Abstract
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that among older adults (≥65 years), falls are the leading cause of injury-related death. Fall-related fractures among older women are more than twice as frequent as those for men. Gender-specific evidence-based fall prevention strategy and intervention studies show that improved patient-centered outcomes are elusive. There is a paucity of emergency medicine literature on the topic. As part of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) consensus conference on "Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes," a breakout group convened to generate a research agenda on priority questions to be answered on this topic. The consensus-based priority research agenda is presented in this article.
Volume
21
Issue
12
First Page
1380
Last Page
1385
ISSN
1553-2712
Published In/Presented At
Greenberg, M. R., Kane, B. G., Totten, V. Y., Raukar, N. P., Moore, E. C., Sanson, T., & ... Vaca, F. E. (2014). Injury Due to Mechanical Falls: Future Directions in Gender-specific Surveillance, Screening, and Interventions in Emergency Department Patients. Academic Emergency Medicine: Official Journal Of The Society For Academic Emergency Medicine, 21(12), 1380-1385. doi:10.1111/acem.12523
Disciplines
Emergency Medicine
PubMedID
25491707
LVHN link
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mnh&AN=25491707&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Department(s)
Department of Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty, Department of Surgery, Department of Surgery Faculty, USF-LVHN SELECT Program, USF-LVHN SELECT Program Faculty
Document Type
Article