Awareness and Functional Outcome of Hip Fracture-Related Falls among Patients with a History of Recurrent Falling.

CONCLUSIONS: Awareness of the syndrome of recurrent falling is extremely low. Recurrent falls before a hip fracture-related fall is associated with substantial loss of functional independence. Being a recurrent faller adversely affects rehabilitation outcome of hip fracture patients. PMID: 29658206 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Israel Medical Association Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Isr Med Assoc J Source Type: research