Appendix 1: Data Extraction Form

Participants Setting of recruitment and assessment Inclusion criteria (including assessment tools ; at higher fall risk versus unselected) Exclusion criteria Number of randomised subjects (Intervention) Number of randomised subjects (Control) % women Mean age (age range /SD) Intervention Type of exercise (ProFaNE categories) Moderate to high challenging balance component (Sherrington's definition) Mode of delivery (group / home / combination) Sessions frequency/duration Total programme duration Comparison group Adherence data Falls and injurious falls outcomes Definition of falls Rate ratio of (all) falls Rate of falls in control group Follow up period (for falls recording) Definitions of injurious falls (corresponding category classification) Data on injurious falls for each category (Rate/risk ratio, number of injurious falls/fallers in each group, person-time in each group) Bias assessment Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding of falls and injurious falls ascertainment Attrition data Method of falls recording Method used to verify severe injurious falls Adverse events