TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Hot off the press: stop fallin': geriatric fall prevention in the ED JO - Academic emergency medicine A1 - Challen, Kirsty A1 - Westafer, Lauren A1 - Milne, W. Ken SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Falling is the commonest cause of traumatic injury triggering older adults in the United States to present to the Emergency Department (ED). We discuss an article by Hammouda et al published in Academic Emergency Medicine, November 2021, a scoping review and consensus statement produced by the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network. We provide critical analysis of the article, and summarize the social media discussion and a podcast in which the authors discuss their work.

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LA - en SN - 1069-6563 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acem.14466 ID - ref1 ER -