Consumer Products and Fall-related Injuries in Seniors

Consumer products and fall-related injuries in seniors.

OBJECTIVE To conduct an environmental scan to identify the scope of literature on consumer products and injuries in seniors and to fill in some of the information gaps by exploring the relationship between assistive devices (AD) and fall-related injuries. METHODS The environmental scan included primary literature identified in Medline and EMBASE databases and grey literature was identified in...

Epidemiology of falls and fall-related injuries

Geriatric hospitalizations in fall-related injuries

BACKGROUND To investigate the injury pattern, severity, and mortality of elderly patients hospitalized for treatment of trauma following fall accidents. METHODS Data obtained from the Trauma Registry System were retrospectively reviewed for trauma admissions between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2013 in a Level I trauma center. Of 16,548 registered patients, detailed information was retrie...

Injuries related to consumer products in Canada--a systematic literature review.

OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic literature review of injury related to certain consumer products. METHODS Forty-six empirical research reports along with 32 surveillance reports from the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) were examined to determine the approximate number of injuries associated with a given product per year and any trends in frequency. Perce...

Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities.

* The reporting of most sentinel events to The Joint Commission is voluntary and represents only a small proportion of actual events. Therefore, these data are not an epidemiologic data set and no conclusions should be drawn about the actual relative frequency of events or trends in events over time. Published for Joint Commission accredited organizations and interested health care professional...