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Injury Due to Mechanical Falls: Future Directions in Gender‐specific Surveillance, Screening, and Interventions in Emergency Department Patients
Author(s) -
Greenberg Marna R.,
Kane Bryan G.,
Totten Vicken Y.,
Raukar Neha P.,
Moore Elizabeth C.,
Sanson Tracy,
Barraco Robert D.,
Nguyen Michael C.,
Vaca Federico E.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/acem.12523
Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , emergency department , intervention (counseling) , breakout , injury prevention , suicide prevention , poison control , injury surveillance , medical emergency , medline , human factors and ergonomics , family medicine , gerontology , psychiatry , finance , political science , law , economics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that among older adults (≥65 years), falls are the leading cause of injury‐related death. Fall‐related fractures among older women are more than twice as frequent as those for men. Gender‐specific evidence‐based fall prevention strategy and intervention studies show that improved patient‐centered outcomes are elusive. There is a paucity of emergency medicine literature on the topic. As part of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) consensus conference on “Gender‐Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes,” a breakout group convened to generate a research agenda on priority questions to be answered on this topic. The consensus‐based priority research agenda is presented in this article.