Fall prevention interventions in primary care to reduce fractures and falls in people aged 70 years and over: the PreFIT three-arm cluster RCT

Bruce, Julie; Hossain, Anower; Lall, Ranjit; Withers, Emma J; Finnegan, Susanne; Underwood, Martin; Ji, Chen; Bojke, Chris; Longo, Roberta; Hulme, Claire; Hennings, Susie; Sheridan, Ray; Westacott, Katharine; Ralhan, Shvaita; Martin, Finbarr; Davison, John; Shaw, Fiona; Skelton, Dawn A; Treml, Jonathan; Willett, Keith; Lamb, Sarah E

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There was no evidence that 'screen and treat' falls prevention strategies in primary care reduce fractures at 18 months.

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Julie Bruce ¹, Anower Hossain ^1,², Ranjit Lall ¹, Emma J Withers ¹, Susanne Finnegan ¹, Martin Underwood ¹, Chen Ji ¹, Chris Bojke ³, Roberta Longo ³, Claire Hulme ⁴, Susie Hennings ¹, Ray Sheridan ⁵, Katharine Westacott ⁶, Shvaita Ralhan ⁷, Finbarr Martin ⁸, John Davison ⁹, Fiona Shaw ⁹, Dawn A Skelton ¹⁰, Jonathan Treml ¹¹, Keith Willett ¹², Sarah E Lamb ^1,^4,^13,^*

¹ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
² Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
³ Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
⁴ College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
⁵ General Medicine/Care of the Elderly, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK
⁶ Elderly Care Department, Warwick Hospital, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK
⁷ Gerontology Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
⁸ St Thomas’ Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
⁹ Falls and Syncope Service, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
¹⁰ Centre for Living, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK
¹¹ Geriatric Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
¹² Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
¹³ Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: s.e.lamb@exeter.ac.uk

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