David A. Ganz

TL;DR: Screening for risk of falling during the clinical examination begins with determining if the patient has fallen in the past year, and patients who have not previously fallen or who have a gait or balance problem are at higher risk of future falls.

TL;DR: To determine whether the interval over which patients are asked to remember their falls affects fall reporting, a large number of patients say they do not remember the interval at all.

TL;DR: The benefits and harms of fall prevention programs in acute care settings and to identify factors associated with successful implementation of these programs are discussed in this paper. But an optimal bundle of components was not identified, and future research would advance knowledge by identifying optimal bundles of component interventions for particular patients.

TL;DR: To systematically document the implementation, components, comparators, adherence, and effectiveness of published fall prevention approaches in U.S. acute care hospitals, a large number of hospitals in the United States are considering adopting these approaches.

TL;DR: Among older persons at increased risk of death or functional decline, multimorbidity results in better, rather than worse, quality of care.