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| Title |
Patterns of comorbidity in community-dwelling older people hospitalised for fall-related injury: A cluster analysis
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| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2318-11-45 |
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| Authors |
Trang Vu, Caroline F Finch, Lesley Day |
| Abstract |
Community-dwelling older people aged 65+ years sustain falls frequently; these can result in physical injuries necessitating medical attention including emergency department care and hospitalisation. Certain health conditions and impairments have been shown to contribute independently to the risk of falling or experiencing a fall injury, suggesting that individuals with these conditions or impairments should be the focus of falls prevention. Since older people commonly have multiple conditions/impairments, knowledge about which conditions/impairments coexist in at-risk individuals would be valuable in the implementation of a targeted prevention approach. The objective of this study was therefore to examine the prevalence and patterns of comorbidity in this population group. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 156 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 148 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 31 | 20% |
| Researcher | 24 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 9% |
| Professor | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 29 | 19% |
| Unknown | 34 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 45 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 5% |
| Engineering | 8 | 5% |
| Psychology | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 20% |
| Unknown | 39 | 25% |