RETRACTED ARTICLE: Injuries and outcomes resulting due to falls in elderly patients presenting to the Emergency Department of a tertiary care hospital–a cohort …

SM Soomar, Z Dhalla - BMC emergency medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Fall injuries and trauma-related hospitalizations are the most common causes
of injury and in-hospital stay amongst the elderly population. After the age of 65, the severity …

Geriatric hospitalizations in fall-related injuries

CS Rau, TS Lin, SC Wu, JCS Yang, SY Hsu… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Background To investigate the injury pattern, severity, and mortality of elderly patients
hospitalized for treatment of trauma following fall accidents. Methods Data obtained from the …

Preventing emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations of older adults with cognitive impairment compared with the general senior population: what do we …

M Gagnon-Roy, B Hami, M Généreux, N Veillette… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Older cognitively impaired adults present a higher risk of hospitalisation and
mortality following a visit to the emergency department (ED). Better understanding of …

Ortopedi ve travmatoloji kliniğinde geriatrik değerlendirme

A Savcı, Ö Bilik - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi …, 2014 - dergipark.org.tr
Yaşam süresinin artması ile dünyada ve ülkemizde yaşlı popülasyonu da giderek
artmaktadır. Yaşlı nüfusa yönelik sağlık hizmetinin geliştirilmesi için, ulusal ve uluslararası …

Single and combined use of fall-risk-increasing drugs and fracture risk: a population-based case–control study

J Hauff, M Rottenkolber, P Oehler, S Fischer… - Age and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background while many drug groups are associated with falls in older people, less is known
about absolute increases in risk and how these risks vary across different groups of drugs or …

Geriatric fall-related injuries

AF Hefny, AK Abbas, FM Abu-Zidan - African health sciences, 2016 - ajol.info
Objectives: We aimed to study the anatomical distribution, severity, and outcome of geriatric
fall-related injuries in order to give recommendations regarding their prevention. Methods …

Nerve regeneration in chitosan conduits and in autologous nerve grafts in healthy and in type 2 diabetic Goto–Kakizaki rats

L Stenberg, A Kodama… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge about nerve regeneration after nerve injury and reconstruction in
appropriate diabetic animal models is incomplete. Short‐term nerve regeneration after …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiological profile of extremity fractures and dislocations in road traffic accidents in Kashan, Iran: a glance at the related disabilities

M Mahdian, MR Fazel, M Sehat… - Archives of bone and …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Apart from the mortality, road traffic injuries are associated with significant
morbidities. This study has aimed to examine the pattern of traffic accident-related extremity …

An increasing number of hand injuries in an elderly population–a retrospective study over a 30-year period

HE Rosberg, LB Dahlin - BMC geriatrics, 2018 - Springer
Background Both the number and the proportion of elderly people in the society increase.
The number of elderly subjects with a disability due to a disease has decreased resulting in …

Females fall more from heights but males survive less among a geriatric population: insights from an American level 1 trauma center

A El-Menyar, E Tilley, H Al-Thani, R Latifi - BMC geriatrics, 2019 - Springer
Background Approximately one third of subjects≥ 65 year old and half of subjects≥ 80
years old sustain a fall injury each year. We aimed to study the outcomes of fall from a height …