Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Fall-Prevention Program Fails from MedPage Today

By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

A multidisciplinary program to prevent recurrent falls among older people failed to reduce fall rates, according to results of a clinical trial from the Netherlands.

The randomized, controlled clinical trial, conducted among more than 200 people ages 65 and older who had suffered a previous fall, found no statistically significant differences in fall rates within a year between the intervention group and those who received the usual care, Oscar de Vries, MD, of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, and colleagues reported in the July 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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