Injury Due to Mechanical Falls: Future Directions in Gender‐specific Surveillance, Screening, and Interventions in Emergency Department Patients. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Greenberg, Marna R.; Kane, Bryan G.; Totten, Vicken Y.; Raukar, Neha P.; Moore, Elizabeth C.; Sanson, Tracy; Barraco, Robert D.; Nguyen, Michael C.; Vaca, Federico E.; Miner, James
• Is Part Of: Academic emergency medicine. Volume 21:Number 12(2014:Dec.)
• Page Start: 1380
• Page End: 1385
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: Emergency medicine -- Periodicals; 616.02505
• DOI: 10.1111/acem.12523
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1069-6563

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="acem12523-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>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 <italic>Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)</italic> 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.</p> </abstract>