FRAT-up, a Web-based fall-risk assessment tool for elderly people living in the community.

ABSTRACT:

Background

About 30% of people over 65 are subject to at least one unintentional fall a year. Fall prevention protocols and interventions can decrease the number of falls. To be effective, a prevention strategy requires a prior step to evaluate the fall risk of the subjects. Despite extensive research, existing assessment tools for fall risk have been insufficient for predicting falls.

Objective

The goal of this study is to present a novel web-based fall-risk assessment tool (FRAT-up) and to evaluate its accuracy in predicting falls, within a context of community-dwelling persons aged 65 and up.

Methods

FRAT-up is based on the assumption that a subject's fall risk is given by the contribution of their exposure to each of the known fall-risk factors. Many scientific st

SUBMITTER: Cattelani L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4376110 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature