There is little or no data on uptake and completion rates among patients who are referred to falls prevention programs by their physicians.
Secondary analyses will examine outcomes by treatment received, namely whether participants got referred to falls services.
If so, we expect better outcomes and reduced costs, both for patients now referred to falls services and for those not now taken to ED unnecessarily.
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Here we refer to fall 2009 as the first recruitment period and spring 2010 as the second recruitment period.
The proportion of patients referred for radiography fell by 8.6% at the tertiary teaching hospital (95.8% v 87.2%; P<0.001) and by 12.5% at the community hospital (91.4% v 78.9%; P<0.001) compared with the baseline audit (table 2).
Tephra falls, referred to colloquially, and throughout this paper, as ash falls, are one of the most widespread volcanic hazards (e.g. Magill and Blong, 2005).
However, the percentage of those persons identified as at risk by the FRT are highly likely at risk, and they should be referred for falls risk intervention.
Despite these interventions, it is not routine for people who fall and who are seen by the ambulance service to be referred to a falls prevention service.
"People can be referred before they fall, or after," explains Ashleigh Corry, the co-ordinator of the falls prevention programme Steady Steps, designed and run by charity Edinburgh Leisure, runner-up in the Measuring Excellence category.
