Background Falls in care facilities and hospitals are common events that cause
considerable morbidity and mortality for older people. This is an update of a review first …

Objective: To carry out meta-analyses on psychotropic drugs and to provide an update of the
risk of falling in the elderly people related to psychotropic drugs. Design: Meta-analyses of …

Background: Hospital inpatient falls are common and may lead to injuries and prolonged
hospitalization. Although hospital studies have reported overall fall rates and injuries …

Antidepressants have long been recognized as a contributory factor to falls and many
studies show an association between antidepressants and falls. There are extensive data for …

Falls are an important health concern among older adults due to age‐related changes in the
body. Having a medical history of chronic health condition may pose even higher risk of …

CONTEXT: The multifactorial nature of falls among elderly people is well-known. Identifying
the social-demographic characteristics of elderly people who fall would enable us to define …

The association between drugs and falls has been widely studied in the past 3 decades,
with increasingly robust evidence of a causal link. Both specific classes of drugs and the …

Objective: To detect the main factors associated with the occurrence of specific geriatric
syndromes (namely pressure sores, fecal incontinence, urinary incontinence and falls) in …

We aimed to identify fall incidence, predictors and characteristics and to investigate
hospitalization outcomes for elderly inpatients. In 340 men and 280 women consecutively …

Background and aims: Increased gait variability is associated with a high risk of falling in
older community-dwellers, but no information exists about the relationship between …