Will my patient fall?

By D. Ganz, Y. Bao, Paul Shekelle, L. Rubenstein. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2007

863 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Complementary and alternative medicine, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Surgery

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4. M. Montero‐Odasso

Citations in the corpus

• Quantitative gait markers and incident fall risk in older adults. (2009, background): “The association between gait speed and falls remained robust after accounting for several risk factors that are strongly associated with falls as well as traditional clinical tests of gait and balance ( 2 , 5 , 9 ).”
• World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative (2022, positive): “• Gait and balance impairment is one of the domains that most consistently predicts future falls [32]. in standing and walking and has been found sensitive to change in intervention studies [58].”
• Physical activity in older age: perspectives for healthy ageing and frailty (2016, background): “Keywords Exercise Physical activity Muscle Falls Health Frailty”