Summary
Falls among adults over 65 years are an ongoing public health concern, associated with fractures, hospitalization, and even death. Given the aging global population, the incidence of falls continues to rise. Therefore, reducing falls among older persons with fall-prevention interventions is increasingly important. Given the rapid production of new evidence, World Falls Guidelines (WFG) highlighted the need to update our previously published systematic review (SR) with network meta-analysis (NMA) which assessed the efficacy of fall-prevention interventions in older adults.
Results from this living systematic Review (LSR) and NMA will identify individual and combined fall-prevention interventions and their components that are effective for preventing falls in older adults (>65 years of age), according to different patient characteristics. Results will be of interest to policy-makers, guideline developers, clinicians in fall-prevention, and patients, both nationally and internationally and will be used to inform evidence-based guideline recommendations issued by the WFG.
Project Resources
Funded By
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
- Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sharon Straus, Andrea Tricco
Co-Investigators
- Menelaos Konstantinidis, Jessie McGowan, Catherine Stratton, Kristina Nazzicone, Ruth Usher.
KTP Project Staff
- Vera Nincic
- Rachel Warren
- Rebecca Raj