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Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000340Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 20 October 2003see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:

  1. Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2009 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Lesley D Gillespie

    Correspondence to: Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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  • William J Gillespie

    Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK

  • M Clare Robertson

    Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  • Sarah E Lamb

    Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

  • Robert G Cumming

    Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, University of Sydney, Concord, Australia

  • Brian H Rowe

    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Contributions of authors

LD Gillespie, the guarantor for this review, conceived, designed, and co‐ordinated the review, developed the search strategy and carried out the searches, screened search results and obtained papers, screened retrieved papers against inclusion criteria, carried out quality assessment and data abstraction, entered data into RevMan, and wrote the review.
WJ Gillespie conceived and designed the review, screened retrieved papers against inclusion criteria, carried out quality assessment and data abstraction, entered data into RevMan, and wrote the review.
MC Robertson contributed to the appraisal of quality, abstracted data from papers, and commented on drafts of the review. In addition she provided additional data about papers, and a methodological perspective for measurement of outcomes and statistical analyses used in the papers and the economic evaluations.
SE Lamb, RG Cumming and BH Rowe carried out data collection and quality assessment, and commented on drafts of the review.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • University of York, UK.

External sources

  • Health Research Council, New Zealand.

  • National Institute for Clinical Excellence, UK.

  • Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Chairs Program, Ottawa, Canada.

Declarations of interest

Three reviewers were investigators for five included studies: WJ Gillespie (Carter 1997), RG Cumming (Cumming 1999) and MC Robertson (Campbell 1997; Campbell 1999; Robertson 2001a). Investigators did not carry out quality assessment on their own studies. No other conflicts are declared.

Acknowledgements

The reviewers would like to thank Kate Rowntree for her support at the editorial base, and Dr Helen Handoll and Leeann Morton for their assistance with the editorial process for earlier versions of the review. We would also like to thank Dr Geoff Murray for his assistance with data extraction and quality assessment. We thank the following for their useful and constructive comments at editorial review: Peter Herbison, Prof Rajan Madhok, Dr Peter Overstall, Dr Jed Rowe, Prof Marc Swiontkowski, and Dr Janet Wale. We are grateful to N. Freeman for her translation of Vellas 1991.

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2009 Apr 15

Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people

Review

Lesley D Gillespie, William J Gillespie, M Clare Robertson, Sarah E Lamb, Robert G Cumming, Brian H Rowe

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000340.pub2

2003 Oct 20

Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people

Review

Lesley D Gillespie, William J Gillespie, M Clare Robertson, Sarah E Lamb, Robert G Cumming, Brian H Rowe

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000340

Notes

Due to its size and complexity we plan to split this review into two reviews: "Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community" and "Interventions for preventing falls in older people in residential care facilities and hospitals". The protocols for these reviews have been published and this review will be withdrawn when the full reviews have been published.