The reliability and predictive accuracy of the falls risk for older people in the community assessment (FROP-Com) tool | Zendy

Melissa Russell | Zendy; Keith Hill | Zendy; Irene Blackberry | Zendy; Lesley Day | Zendy; Shyamali C. Dharmage | Zendy

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The reliability and predictive accuracy of the falls risk for older people in the community assessment (FROP-Com) tool

Author(s) -

Melissa Russell,

Keith Hill,

Irene Blackberry,

Lesley Day,

Shyamali C. Dharmage

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afn129

Subject(s) - medicine , reliability (semiconductor) , prospective cohort study , risk assessment , falls in older adults , physical therapy , emergency department , poison control , injury prevention , emergency medicine , power (physics) , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , computer science

he Falls Risk for Older People in the Community assessment (FROP-Com) tool was designed for use in targeted multi-factorial falls prevention programmes. It fills the gap between the short screening tools and the longer assessment tools, e.g. the physiological profile assessment (PPA). The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and predictive accuracy of the FROP-Com.

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