To examine the distribution of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in women >65 y old presenting to the emergency department following a fall or fall related injury.
The accessible region accounted for 71.4% of fall related deaths, a significantly higher proportion compared to moderately accessible, remote and very remote regions (p = 0.003).
Overall, fall related injuries constitute a serious public health problem and are associated with high health care costs [ 6].
They are also more likely to enter residential aged care as a result of a fall related injury [ 3- 5].
Therefore, we compared the remaining 28, who fractured due to a fall, to the other 849 participants who did not have a fall related fracture within our follow up period.
The time interval between fall initiation (loss of balance) to fall impact ranged from about 700 ms (for a rapid trip) to 3000 ms (for a fall related to incorrect weight shifting); and the corresponding number of video frames ranged from 10 – 45.
Numerous studies have presented combinations of fall related risk factors and a number of risk assessment tools have been developed [ 2, 3].
In the control group, nine participants reported wearing multifocal glasses and two reported wearing no glasses when a fall related fracture occurred; in one case what type of glasses were worn, if any, was unclear.
In absolute terms, the probability of the combined outcome of hospital admission or emergency department visit for a fall related fracture is predicted to increase with concurrent warfarin use from 0.318% to 0.467% per quarter (these calculations are described in appendix note 1).
No intervention participants reported wearing single lens distance glasses when they had a fall related fracture: one reported wearing reading glasses, 12 multifocal glasses, and three no glasses; in two cases what type of glasses were worn, if any, was not clear.
There was a trend for lower alcohol involvement in fall related deaths compared to non-fall related deaths (p = 0.074).
