title: Injury due to mechanical falls: future directions in gender-specific surveillance, screening, and interventions in emergency department patients.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network/USF Morsani College of Medicine, Allentown, PA.
authors.forename: Marna R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Bryan G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: Vicken Y
authors.initials: VY
authors.lastname: Totten
authors.forename: Neha P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Raukar
authors.forename: Elizabeth C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sanson
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Barraco
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Federico E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Vaca
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D032921:Consensus; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States