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Management Of Fall Patients – What Should Be Done For Emergency Department Fall Patients?, Katherine Selman, Christine Binkley, Katherine Davenport, Shan W. Lliu, Maura Kennedy
Management Of Fall Patients – What Should Be Done For Emergency Department Fall Patients?, Katherine Selman, Christine Binkley, Katherine Davenport, Shan W. Lliu, Maura Kennedy
Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related emergency visits in older adults, translating into an estimated 3 million ED visits and 32,000 deaths from fall-related injuries annually in the United States. Falls subsequently result in diminished functional ability and higher risk for future falls and mortality. Despite this, ED clinicians focus primarily on injuries that result from a fall and often defer the modifiable causes of the fall and future fall prevention to outpatient providers. We review two articles that address the feasibility of performing interventions from the ED and the efficacy of a multifactorial fall intervention program.