Clinical Trial: Validating a Multifactorial Algorithm to Predict Fall Risk in Community Dwelling Older Persons Aged 65 Years or Older

U.S., May 9 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06961799) titled 'Validating a Multifactorial Algorithm to Predict Fall Risk in Community Dwelling Older Persons Aged 65 Years or Older' on April 18.

Brief Summary: Falls in older adults have an annual incidence between 23 and 34% for persons of 65 years and older. The lack of transfer of promising research results on falls prevention to daily practice may have several explanations. One of the first concerns for that matter may be a valid and sensitive selection of the persons at risk who are eligible for fall prevention interventions

Goals of the prospective obeservational study:

1. To validate a new, comprehensive, multifactorial screeningsintrumen...