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Stop The Falls! A framework for injury prevention outreach for older adults presented by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Committees.

Egodage, Tanya;
Duncan, Thomas;
Ho, Vanessa;
Joseph, DAndrea;
Putnam, Adin;
Burruss, Sigrid;
Bongiovanni, Tasce;
Knight-Davis, Jennifer;
Adams, Sasha;
Gorman, Elizabeth;
Jarman, Molly;
Ahmed, Nasim;
Ratnasekera, Asanthi;
Prabhakaran, Kartik;
Cohan, Caitlin;
Hornor, Melissa;
Colling, Kristin;
Joseph, Bellal

UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2024)

With the increasing age of the population in the USA, fall prevention events to target older patients are imperative. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma hosted a fall prevention event at the host city of the 2023 Annual Meeting. We review the planning and implementation of this Stop the Falls event, in hopes that other institutions may benefit and sustainably effectuate fall prevention events for an increasingly geriatric population.

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