Citation

Greenberg MR, Kane BG, Totten VY, Raukar NP, Moore EC, Sanson T, Barraco RD, Nguyen MC, Vaca FE. Acad. Emerg. Med. 2014; 21(12): 1380-1385.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network/USF Morsani College of Medicine, Allentown, PA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/acem.12523

PMID

25491707

Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that among older adults (≥65 years), falls are the leading cause of injury-related death. Fall-related fractures among older women are more than twice as frequent as those for men. Gender-specific evidence-based fall prevention strategy and intervention studies show that improved patient-centered outcomes are elusive. There is a paucity of emergency medicine literature on the topic. As part of the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) consensus conference on "Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes," a breakout group convened to generate a research agenda on priority questions to be answered on this topic. The consensus-based priority research agenda is presented in this article.

Language: en