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Robert G. Cumming
Researcher at University of Sydney
Publications - 524
Citations - 42107
Robert G. Cumming is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 97, co-authored 515 publications receiving 38309 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert G. Cumming include University of New South Wales & Neuroscience Research Australia.
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Polypharmacy cutoff and outcomes: five or more medicines were used to identify community-dwelling older men at risk of different adverse outcomes.
Danijela Gnjidic,Sarah N. Hilmer,Sarah N. Hilmer,Fiona M. Blyth,Fiona M. Blyth,Vasi Naganathan,Vasi Naganathan,Louise M. Waite,Louise M. Waite,Markus J. Seibel,Markus J. Seibel,Andrew J. McLachlan,Andrew J. McLachlan,Robert G. Cumming,Robert G. Cumming,David J. Handelsman,David J. Handelsman,David G. Le Couteur,David G. Le Couteur +18 more
TL;DR: The study supports the use of five or more medications in the current definition of polypharmacy to estimate the medication-related adverse effects for frailty, disability, mortality, and falls.
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Interventions for preventing falls in older people in nursing care facilities and hospitals
Ian D. Cameron,Geoff R Murray,Lesley D Gillespie,M. Clare Robertson,Keith D. Hill,Robert G. Cumming,Ngaire Kerse +6 more
TL;DR: There is evidence that multifactorial interventions reduce falls and risk of falling in hospitals and may do so in nursing care facilities and Vitamin D supplementation is effective in reducing the rate of falls in Nursing care facilities.
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Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals
Ian D. Cameron,Lesley D Gillespie,M. Clare Robertson,Geoff R Murray,Keith D. Hill,Robert G. Cumming,Ngaire Kerse +6 more
TL;DR: Assessing the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce falls by older people in care facilities and hospitals suggested that exercise might reduce falls in people in intermediate level facilities, and increase falls in facilities providing high levels of nursing care.
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Drugs and Falls in Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis: II. Cardiac and Analgesic Drugs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the evidence linking specific classes of cardiac and analgesic drugs to falls in older people. But, the evidence was based solely on observational data, with minimal adjustment for confounders, dosage, or duration of therapy.
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Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people
Lesley D Gillespie,William J Gillespie,Mary Clare Robertson,Sarah E Lamb,Robert G. Cumming,Brian H. Rowe +5 more
TL;DR: The effects of interventions designed to reduce the incidence of falls in elderly people (living in the community, or in institutional or hospital care) are assessed to assess their effectiveness.