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Fourteen percent of subjects (n=12) reported a recurrent fall and 8% (7) reported returning to the ED after a recurrent fall.
Of note, recurrent fall rate (51.4% within follow-up) and the number of falls with major injury (29.8% of fallers at baseline; 17.6% of fallers within follow-up) were both high in comparison to international research findings among community-dwelling older adults (38.1-53.8% and 10-15%), confirming earlier findings and underlining the urgent need for effective preventive measures [ 1, 2, 31].
The conditional models provide evidence of the constant difference in recurrent fall rates between the groups.
Other covariates, used for adjustment in these models, were also found to be significantly related to the falls or recurrent fall outcomes.
We believe this is because the majority of residents with a recurrent fall during the 7 days following a drug change were the same residents with a history of falls.
Overall fall incidence of 'any fall' assessed retrospectively, but not recurrent fall rates, differed between the two studies, consistent with both the very different possibilities that true rates differed between the two populations and that they were artificial differences because of methodological differences between studies.
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All SRRST items showed significant differences between those with and without a fall, recurrent falls, and fall-related fractures.
Confidence intervals overlapped between assessments in all overall rates and all age strata for both any fall and recurrent falls.
The ORs of significant confounders were 1.23 to 1.53 for a single fall, 1.32 to 1.85 for recurrent falls, and 1.51 to 1.73 for fall-related fractures.
Odds ratios were markedly higher for recurrent falls than for single fall and fall-related fractures.
'Recurrent falls' was defined as two or more falls within the exposure period and the incidence was calculated as per any fall.
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