Relationship between location and activity in injurious falls: an exploratory study.

Background: Knowledge about the circumstances under which injurious falls occur could provide healthcare workers with better tools to prevent falls and fall-related injuries. Therefore, we assessed whether older persons who sustain an injurious fall can be classified into specific fall types, based on a combination of fall location and activity up to the moment of the fall. In addition, we assessed whether specific injurious fall types are related to causes of the fall, consequences of the fall, socio-demographic characteristics, and health-related characteristics.

A gender-specific evaluation of a care-oriented curricular change in a Dutch medical school.

Background: Patients with chronic diseases need doctors who have the appropriate skills to maintain a long-term doctor-patient relationship with an orientation towards care rather than cure and focused on the patient's role in managing their condition. As the number of chronically ill patients is rising, medical education has to develop and evaluate instructional formats to prepare future doctors to provide care tailored to these patients.

Aim: To examine the possibly gender-specific effects on students' orientations of a patient-oriented programme.

Process factors explaining the ineffectiveness of a multidisciplinary fall prevention programme: a process evaluation.

Background: Falls are a major health threat to older community-living people, and initiatives to prevent falls should be a public health priority. We evaluated a Dutch version of a successful British fall prevention programme. Results of this Dutch study showed no effects on falls or daily functioning.

Lack of effectiveness of a multidisciplinary fall-prevention program in elderly people at risk: a randomized, controlled trial.

Objectives: To assess whether a pragmatic multidisciplinary fall-prevention program was more effective than usual care in preventing new falls and functional decline in elderly people.

Design: A two-group, randomized, controlled trial with 12 months of follow-up.

Setting: University hospital and home-based intervention, the Netherlands.

A multidisciplinary fall prevention program for elderly persons: a feasibility study.

Falling is a common problem among elderly people and has many negative consequences. In the Netherlands, there is a need for effective fall prevention interventions aimed at elderly persons with an increased risk of falling. For this reason, we adapted a successful British fall prevention program comprising a medical occupational therapy assessment to the Dutch health care setting.