Injury Due to Mechanical Falls: Future Directions in Gender‐specific Surveillance,Screening, and Interventions in Emergency Department Patients |
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| Authors: | Vicken Y Totten MD Neha P Raukar MD Elizabeth C Moore DO Tracy Sanson MD Robert D Barraco MD MPH Michael C Nguyen MD Federico E Vaca MD MPH |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, , Cleveland, OH;2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, , Providence, RI;3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network/USF Morsani College of Medicine, , Allentown, PA;4. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, , Tampa, FL;5. Department of Surgery, Section of Geriatric Trauma Lehigh Valley Health Network/USF Morsani College of Medicine, , Allentown, PA;6. Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, , New Haven, CT |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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