Purpose. The influence of medications and diagnoses on fall risk in psychiatric inpatients was evaluated. Methods. In this retrospective case–control study, psychiatric inpatients age 18 years ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a week long amber Cold-Health Alert for all regions of England until midday ...

Sensor data from wearable devices analyzed over five years reveals walking and posture differences that predict fall risk in Parkinson’s patients. Study: Predicting future fallers in Parkinson ...

2 Jubilee Day Hospital ... healthcare.nhs.uk Objectives: To accurately establish the incidence of falls in Parkinson's disease (PD) and to investigate predictive risk factors for fallers from baseline ...

Data could be used to predict the risk of falls in people with Parkinson’s disease to help improve effective longer term care planning. A study by the University of Oxford has shown how ...

A week-long amber Cold-Health Alert has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency for all regions of England until midday ...

However, some limitations of this study need to be considered. First, it is difficult to exhaust all potential risk factors for falls. For example, we did not make a detailed assessment of factors ...

Further, in the moderate stages of the disease, the affected person may begin to shuffle when he or she walks, which can cause a great deal of unsteadiness and a higher risk of falls. Regular ...

Twenty Tennessee hospitals currently exist on or near flood plains, according to a Dec. 30 report in The Tennesseean. The at-risk hospitals are located across the state in both rural and urban areas.

The study aimed to determine the prevalence of LBP among ambulance workers, including doctors, nurses and drivers, and to explore the risk factors for ambulance nurses’ chronic LBP (lasting for at ...

Nursing home workers should consider depression as a risk factor for resident falls, authors of a new study say. Depression is already reported as an independent risk factor for falls. In fact ...