The Effects of Exercise on Falls in Elderly Patients

Meta-analysis in clinical trials

1986 • 36,193 citations

Risk Factors for Falls among Elderly Persons Living in the Community

1988 • 6,422 citations

Cox's Regression Model for Counting Processes: A Large Sample Study

1982 • 4,101 citations

Performance‐Oriented Assessment of Mobility Problems in Elderly Patients

1986 • 3,206 citations

Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives.

1991 • 3,036 citations

Exercise Training and Nutritional Supplementation for Physical Frailty in Very Elderly People

1994 • 2,823 citations

A Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Falling among Elderly People Living in the Community

1994 • 2,159 citations

Risk factors for recurrent nonsyncopal falls. A prospective study

1989 • 1,511 citations

FALLS BY ELDERLY PEOPLE AT HOME: PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS

1988 • 1,232 citations

Risk Factors for Falls in a Community-Based Prospective Study of People 70 Years and Older

1989 • 1,212 citations

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

1991 • 861 citations

Functional Reach: Predictive Validity in a Sample of Elderly Male Veterans

1992 • 729 citations

Falls Among Older Persons: A Public Health Perspective

1992 • 680 citations

Falls and Injuries in Frail and Vigorous Community Elderly Persons

1991 • 566 citations

Predictors of falls among elderly people. Results of two population-based studies

1989 • 471 citations

Risk Factors for Fractures of the Distal Forearm and Proximal Humerus

1992 • 457 citations

Predictors and Prognosis of Inability to Get Up After Falls Among Elderly Persons

1993 • 449 citations

Causes and Correlates of Recurrent Falls in Ambulatory Frail Elderly

1991 • 408 citations

Meta-analysis in epidemiology, with special reference to studies of the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer: A critique

1991 • 402 citations

Development of the Common Data Base for the FICSIT Trials

1993 • 383 citations

A Randomized Trial of Physical Rehabilitation for Very Frail Nursing Home Residents

1994 • 309 citations

Mortality, disability, and falls in older persons: the role of underlying disease and disability.

1992 • 209 citations

Frailty and Injuries in Later Life: The FICSIT Trials

1993 • 190 citations

Health Care Utilization and Functional Status in the Aged Following a Fall

1991 • 174 citations

Yale Ficsit: Risk Factor Abatement Strategy for Fall Prevention

1993 • 152 citations

Training Balance and Strength in the Elderly to Improve Function

1993 • 123 citations

The Atlanta FICSIT Study: Two Exercise Interventions to Reduce Frailty in Elders

1993 • 121 citations

The Seattle FICSIT/Movelt Study: The Effect of Exercise on Gait and Balance in Older Adults

1993 • 110 citations

The Boston FICSIT Study: The Effects of Resistance Training and Nutritional Supplementation on Physical Frailty in the Oldest Old

1993 • 98 citations

Physical Activity and Fracture Risk in a Free-Living Elderly Cohort

1988 • 84 citations

The Impact of Falls in an Inner‐City Elderly African‐American Population

1992 • 71 citations

Falls among elderly people living at home: medical and social factors in a national sample.

1992 • 55 citations

Seniors' Program for Injury Control and Education

1993 • 49 citations

Iowa FICSIT Trial: The Feasibility of Elderly Wearing a Hip Joint Protective Garment to Reduce Hip Fractures

1993 • 39 citations

Effects of Physical Therapy on Functional Status of Nursing Home Residents

1993 • 35 citations

Injuries among the Elderly in the Home Environment

1991 • 32 citations

Expenditures for Unintentional Injuries among the Elderly

1990 • 30 citations

Preplanned meta-analyses in a clinical trial aimed at reducing frailty and injuries in older persons

1991 • 7 citations