Falls Among Older Persons: A Public Health Perspective

“Mini-mental state”

1975 • 82,784 citations

Risk Factors for Falls among Elderly Persons Living in the Community

1988 • 6,422 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES

1985 • 1,729 citations

Risk factors for recurrent nonsyncopal falls. A prospective study

1989 • 1,511 citations

Psychotropic Drug Use and the Risk of Hip Fracture

1987 • 1,013 citations

Risk Factors for Falls as a Cause of Hip Fracture in Women

1991 • 861 citations

Factors Associated with Falls in the Elderly: A Community Study

1981 • 807 citations

Long-Term Estrogen Replacement Therapy Prevents Bone Loss and Fractures

1985 • 788 citations

The Injury Fact Book

1992 • 787 citations

Forgetting Falls

1988 • 768 citations

FALLS IN OLD AGE: A STUDY OF FREQUENCY AND RELATED CLINICAL FACTORS

1981 • 723 citations

THE INCIDENCE OF FALL INJURY EVENTS AMONG THE ELDERLY IN A DEFINED POPULATION

1990 • 518 citations

Falls and Fractures in Patients With Alzheimer-Type Dementia

1987 • 481 citations

Menopausal Estrogen Therapy and Hip Fractures

1981 • 472 citations

Race and sex differences in hip fracture incidence.

1984 • 402 citations

Clinical Use of Bone Densitometry

1991 • 390 citations

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF FALLS IN AN ELDERLY POPULATION: I. INCIDENCE AND MORBIDITY

1977 • 378 citations

AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY OF HIP FRACTURE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

1982 • 341 citations

On the escape of tigers: an ecologic note.

1970 • 337 citations

The Ambiguous Relation between Aging and Adverse Drug Reactions

1991 • 323 citations

Thiazide Diuretic Agents and the Incidence of Hip Fracture

1990 • 303 citations

OSTEOPOROSIS AND THE RISK OF HIP FRACTURE

1986 • 302 citations

Falls and Instability in the Elderly

1988 • 300 citations

Impaired Vision and Hip Fracture

1989 • 291 citations

The use of quantitative computed tomography to estimate risk of fracture of the hip from falls.

1990 • 243 citations

LONG-TERM USE OF THIAZIDE DIURETICS AND RISK OF HIP FRACTURE

1989 • 235 citations

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND HIP FRACTURES: THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY

1988 • 231 citations

Should Perimenopausal Women Be Screened for Osteoporosis?

1986 • 207 citations

Northeastern Ohio Trauma Study: II. Injury rates by age, sex, and cause.

1984 • 197 citations

Falls in the Elderly: Reliability of a Classification System

1991 • 179 citations

Intrinsic Factors in Falling Among the Elderly

1985 • 168 citations

Impact of Cataract Surgery With Lens Implantation on Vision and Physical Function in Elderly Patients

1987 • 161 citations

Falls in Elderly Patients With Glaucoma

1991 • 147 citations

Alcohol as a risk factor for injury or death resulting from accidental falls: a review of the literature.

1987 • 136 citations

Thiazide Diuretics and the Risk of Hip Fracture

1991 • 132 citations

FRACTURE OF THE FEMUR IN OLD AGE: A TWO-CENTRE STUDY OF ASSOCIATED CLINICAL FACTORS AND THE CAUSE OF THE FALL

1978 • 132 citations

Syncope in the Elderly

1983 • 129 citations

Environmental Factors Associated with Stair Accidents by the Elderly

1985 • 120 citations

Seasonal Variation in the Incidence of Hip Fracture among White Persons Aged 65 Years and Older in the United States, 1984–1987

1991 • 117 citations

A prospective study of accidental falls and resulting injuries in the home among elderly people.

1971 • 99 citations

Suicides among older United States residents: epidemiologic characteristics and trends.

1991 • 99 citations

The role of alcohol in accidental falls.

1983 • 98 citations

The Role of Drugs in Falls in the Elderly

1985 • 92 citations

Nocturnal femoral fracture and continuing widespread use of barbiturate hypnotics.

1977 • 87 citations

The development of state and local injury surveillance systems

1987 • 83 citations

Balance function in elderly people who have and who have not fallen.

1988 • 81 citations

Clinical and Laboratory Studies of Falls in Old People

1985 • 78 citations

Injury Coding and Hospital Discharge Data

1989 • 75 citations

Preventing falls: home hazard checklists to help older patients protect themselves.

1986 • 73 citations

Falls among elderly people living at home.

1955 • 66 citations

Falls in old people at home: Intrinsic versusenvironmental factors in causation

1983 • 59 citations

Geographic variation in the occurrence of hip fractures among the elderly white US population.

1989 • 52 citations

One-year Incidence of Home Accidents in a Rural Swedish Municipality

1986 • 50 citations

Biologic Aspects of Falls and Mobility Limitations in the Elderly

1982 • 46 citations

Visual Depth Illusion and Falls in the Elderly

1985 • 45 citations

Fracture prediction models for osteoporosis prevention

1990 • 39 citations

ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF RISK FACTOR MODIFICATION PROGRAMS1

1986 • 35 citations

INJURIES AND DEATHS AMONG ELDERLY PERSONS1

1987 • 35 citations

ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME

1950 • 27 citations

The Drop Attack

1983 • 21 citations

Spatial Orientation Mechanisms and Their Implications for Falls

1985 • 20 citations

Osteoporosis and the Elderly

1989 • 12 citations

An Assessment Form for Falls

1984 • 8 citations

Fall Mortality and Related Medical Conditions in the Elderly

1990 • 3 citations