Falls and Fall Prevention in the Nursing Home

Performance‐Oriented Assessment of Mobility Problems in Elderly Patients

1986 • 3,206 citations

Fall risk index for elderly patients based on number of chronic disabilities

1986 • 1,555 citations

High-Intensity Strength Training in Nonagenarians

1990 • 1,480 citations

Clinical and laboratory measures of postural balance in an elderly population.

1992 • 1,228 citations

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

1989 • 1,212 citations

Psychotropic Drug Use and the Risk of Hip Fracture

1987 • 1,013 citations

Falls in the Nursing Home

1994 • 813 citations

The Relationship of Knee and Ankle Weakness to Falls in Nursing Home Residents: An Isokinetic Study

1987 • 644 citations

Effect of external hip protectors on hip fractures

1993 • 639 citations

Fall Injuries in the Elderly

1985 • 427 citations

Causes and Correlates of Recurrent Falls in Ambulatory Frail Elderly

1991 • 408 citations

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

1977 • 378 citations

Predictors of Falls Among Elderly People

1989 • 364 citations

The Value of Assessing Falls in an Elderly Population

1990 • 362 citations

Factors Associated with Serious Injury During Falls by Ambulatory Nursing Home Residents

1987 • 362 citations

Nocturia: A Risk Factor for Falls in the Elderly

1992 • 311 citations

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

1994 • 309 citations

Falls and Instability in the Elderly

1988 • 300 citations

Gait Assessment in the Elderly: A Gait Abnormality Rating Scale and Its Relation to Falls

1990 • 281 citations

Mechanical Restraint Use and Fall-related Injuries among Residents of Skilled Nursing Facilities

1992 • 281 citations

Strength of Isometric and Isokinetic Contractions

1980 • 267 citations

On the Natural History of Falls in Old Age

1960 • 262 citations

Deaths Caused by Physical Restraints

1992 • 251 citations

Risk Factors Associated with Falls and Injuries among Elderly Institutionalized Persons

1991 • 246 citations

Medications and Diagnoses in Relation to Falls in a Long‐Term Care Facility

1987 • 209 citations

Psychotropic Drugs and Risk of Recurrent Falls in Ambulatory Nursing Home Residents

1995 • 201 citations

Frailty and Injuries in Later Life: The FICSIT Trials

1993 • 190 citations

Low Prevalence of Postural Hypotension Among Community-Dwelling Elderly

1987 • 171 citations

Shoe Sole Thickness and Hardness Influence Balance in Older Men

1992 • 168 citations

Improving Medication Prescribing and Utilization in the Nursing Home

1990 • 161 citations

Risk factors for recurrent falls in the elderly in long-term institutional care

1995 • 139 citations

1989 Federal Nursing Service Award Winner

1990 • 134 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

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF FALLS IN AN ELDERLY POPULATION II. SOME CIRCUMSTANCES OF FALLING

1977 • 127 citations

Geriatric assessment technology : the state of the art

1995 • 121 citations

Incidence of Injury‐Causing Falls Among Older Adults by Place of Residence: A Population‐Based Study

1995 • 113 citations

Falls Among Nursing Home Residents: An Examination of Incident Reports Before and After Restraint Reduction Programs

1994 • 106 citations

Postprandial Blood Pressure Reduction in Healthy Elderly

1986 • 105 citations

Detrimental Incidents, Including Falls, in an Elderly Institutional Population

1981 • 100 citations

Fear of Falling in Nursing Home Patients

1994 • 94 citations

Postural Hypotension in the Elderly

1984 • 84 citations

Injury in Late Life

1982 • 74 citations

Individualized Care Alternatives Used in the Process of Removing Physical Restraints in the Nursing Home

1994 • 73 citations

Hypotensive Responses to Common Daily Activities in Institutionalized Elderly

1990 • 65 citations

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

1983 • 59 citations

MODELS OF GERIATRIC PRACTICE: Progress Toward a Restraint‐Free Environment in a Large Academic Nursing Facility

1995 • 58 citations

Does This Dizzy Patient Have a Serious Form of Vertigo?

1994 • 58 citations

Care of the Elderly. Meeting the Challenge of Dependency

1978 • 55 citations

Factors Associated with the Elderly Falling in Intermediate Care Facilities

1985 • 50 citations

Reducing Polypharmacy in Extended Care

1995 • 48 citations

Factors in Fracture of the Female Femur

1968 • 43 citations

Falls: Prevention and Management in the Institutional Setting

1988 • 42 citations

Assessment of instability and gait in elderly persons.

1991 • 41 citations

Home, Safe Home

1983 • 36 citations

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo in the Elderly: Treatment by Habituation Exercises

1988 • 35 citations

Safety Assessment for the Frail Elderly: A Comparison of Restrained and Unrestrained Nursing Home Residents

1994 • 35 citations

The role of medication in falls among the elderly in a long-term care facility.

1990 • 34 citations

A new device to decrease falls

1985 • 31 citations

A Survey of Accidental Falls in a Small Home for the Aged

1978 • 31 citations

Nursing home restraints and legal liability

1992 • 29 citations

Accidents in the institutionalized elderly: A risk analysis

1991 • 24 citations

Falls among geropsychiatry inpatients are associated with prn medications for agitation

1992 • 24 citations

Falls and staffing in a residential home for elderly people

1986 • 24 citations

Prognosis of falls among elderly nursing home residents

1995 • 23 citations

Risk Factors That Predict Staff Failure to Release Nursing Home Residents from Restraints

1992 • 21 citations

Patient accidents in a long-term-care facility.

1977 • 21 citations

Point by point: Predicting elders' falls

1989 • 21 citations

Falls and Their Causes

1983 • 21 citations

The Value of Holter Monitoring in Evaluating the Elderly Patient Who Falls

1989 • 19 citations

Total Quality Management and The Medical Director

1995 • 18 citations

A Multidisciplinary Falls Consultation Service in a Nursing Home

1991 • 17 citations

Falls and fractures in nursing home patients receiveing psychotropic drugs

1994 • 17 citations

H�ufigkeit, Umst�nde und Konsequenzen von St�rzen institutionalisierter Betagter; eine Pilotstudie

1991 • 12 citations

Using Infrared Scanning to Decrease Nighttime Falls on a Psychogeriatric Unit

1988 • 7 citations

An analysis of the 1976 incident reports of the Carillon Nursing Home.

1979 • 5 citations