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Prevention of Falls in Older Adults

2011· article· fr· W2329395092 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Cheryl A Sadowski

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada · 2011
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldHealth Professions
TopicBalance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineFall preventionInjury preventionFalling (accident)Poison controlPopulationDeconditioningOccupational safety and healthRehabilitationHip fractureSuicide preventionFear of fallingPhysical therapyGerontologyMedical emergencyOsteoporosisPsychiatryEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Falls are the most common injury in older adults. more than one-third of seniors fall each year and half of them suffer repeated falls. In an institutional setting, almost half of seniors will have a fall each year. Compared to a younger population, seniors have 9 times more fall injuries, and up to 25% of seniors who fall experience a serious injury. The most serious injury is a hip fracture, which often leads to institutionalization and pain, loss of mobility and independence. Of all hip fractures in older adults, >90% are due to a fall. The consequences of falls are expected to increase as the population ages. It is predicted that by 2030 the number of injuries caused by falls will be 100% higher than current rates. In addition to direct physical injury to the person, falls also cause indirect harm, such as the development of fear of falling, resulting in a lack of confidence and eventual deconditioning. The health care system is also affected by increased hospital admissions, emergency department visits and ongoing rehabilitation. Health care professionals, the public and the media may interpret the term “fall” differently. The currently accepted definition for a fall is: a sudden, unintentional change in position causing an individual to land at a lower level, on an object, the floor or the ground (other than as a consequence of sudden onset of paralysis, epileptic seizure or overwhelming external force). Because of their multifactorial causes and the medical complexity of older adults, falls are a challenge for health care professionals to address. Fortunately, there is evidence regarding risks and effective interventions that can reduce falls.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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