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Factors associated with screening positive for high falls risk in fragility fracture patients: A cross-sectional study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders Jun 17, 2020

Rotondi NK, Beaton DE, Sujic R, et al. - This study was intended to present the prevalence of fragility fracture patients who were screened at high falls risk applying a large provincial database, and to ascertain the characteristics correlated with being screened at high falls risk. Researchers enrolled fragility fracture patients 50+ years of age who were screened at 35 hospital fracture clinics in Ontario over a 3.5 year period. Logistic regression was applied to assess multivariable correlations of sociodemographic, fracture-related, and health-related characteristics. The data demonstrate that living in a non-community dwelling and taking 4+ medications were the variables most strongly correlated with being screened at high falls risk. When assessing falls risk in fragility fracture patients, these are potentially modifiable characteristics that should be considered, and especially when designing interventions for preventing subsequent falls. Ongoing work to demonstrate the higher risk of falls in the fragility fracture population is needed.

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