Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management for older adults: a systematic review.

Manuel M Montero-Odasso; Nellie Kamkar; Frederico Pieruccini-Faria; Abdelhady Osman; Yanina Sarquis-Adamson; Jacqueline Close; David B Hogan; Susan Winifred Hunter; Rose Anne Kenny; Lewis A Lipsitz; Stephen R Lord; Kenneth M Madden; Mirko Petrovic; Jesper Ryg; Mark Speechley; Munira Sultana; Maw Pin Tan; N. van der Velde; Joe Verghese; Tahir Masud; Mirko Petrovic; Alice Nieuwboer; Ellen Vlaeyen; Koen Milisen; Jesper Ryg; Rose Anne Kenny; Robert Bourke; Sirpa Hartikainen; Tischa J M van der Cammen; Nathalie Van der Velde; Tahir Masud; Chris Todd; Finbarr C Martin; David R Marsh; Sallie Lamb; James Frith; Pip Logan; Dawn Skelton; Hubert Blain; Cedric Anweiller; Ellen Freiberger; Clemens Becker; Matteo Cesari; Alvaro Casas-Herrero; Javier Perez Jara; Christina Alonzo Bouzòn; Ana-Karim Welmer; Stephanie Birnghebuam; Reto Kressig; Manuel Montero-Odasso; Mark Speechley; Bill McIlroy; Susan Hunter; Richard Camicioli; Kenneth Madden; Mireille Norris; Jennifer Watt; Louise Mallet; David B Hogan; Joe Verghese; Ervin Sejdic; Luigi Ferruci; Lewis Lipsitz; David A. Ganz; Neil B Alexander; Fabiana Giber; Marcelo Schapira; Ricardo Jauregui; Felipe Melgar-Cuellar; Daniela Cristina Carvalho de Abreu; Roberto Alves Lourenço; Monica Pierrucini; Alejandro Ceriani; Pedro Marín-Larraín; Homero Gac Espinola; José Fernando Gómez-Montes; Carlos Alberto Cano-Gutierrez; Xinia Ramirez Ulate; José Ernesto Picado Ovares; Patricio Gabriel Buendia; Susana Lucia Tito; Diego Martínez Padilla; Sara G Aguilar-Navarro; Alberto Mimenza; Rogelio Moctezum; Alberto Avila-Funes; Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo; Luis Manuel Cornejo Alemán; Edgar Aguilera Caona; Juan Carlos Carbajal; José F. Parodi; Aldo Sgaravatti; Stephen Lord; Cathie Sherrington; Cathy Said; Ian Cameron; Meg Morris; Gustavo Duque; Jacqueline Close; Ngaire Kerse; Maw Pin Tan; Leilei Duan; Ryota Sakurai; Chek Hooi Wong; Hossein Negahban; Chang Won Won; Jeffrey Hausdorff; Sebastiana Kalula; Olive Kobusingye

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Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management for older adults: a systematic review.

January 12, 2022

Montero-Odasso MM, Kamkar N, Pieruccini-Faria F, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(12):e2138911.

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Fall prevention in healthcare settings is a patient safety priority. This systematic review found that most clinical practice guidelines provide consistent recommendations for fall prevention for older adults. Guidelines consistently recommend strategies such as risk stratification, medication review, and environment modification.

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