Beside absolute values, several articles report rates of injurious falls or fall-related injuries.
21.7% of injurious falls required medical care, and 3% of injuries required hospital admission.
The protective effect seems most pronounced for the most severe fall related injuries: the estimated reduction is 37% for all injurious falls, 43% for severe injurious falls, and 61% for falls resulting in fractures.
Of all injurious falls, 14% were fractures and 8% were other serious injuries, while 78% had less severe consequences and were classified as moderate injurious falls (appendix 2).
We found that 17percentt of injurious falls, compared to eightpercentt of non-injurious falls, occurred in bathrooms.
Injurious falls among middle aged and older adults with multiple sclerosis.
We evaluated the relationship between anticholinergic burden and recurrent and injurious falls among community-dwelling older adults.
What are the predictors of recurrent falls (more than two/year) and injurious falls in this population?
The direction of six percent of falls was unspecified and these were more likely to be injurious falls.
Similar associations were observed for injurious falls.
We recommend standardised documentation of injurious falls data as number of injurious falls, number of people sustaining injurious falls, injurious falls rate per person-year of follow-up, and number of people sustaining multiple events [ 13].
