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Australian Falls and Injury Data / Resources

 

Forthcoming Conferences

 

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Database and Utilities
   

 

Organisations

Australian National Falls Network

NSW Falls Injury Prevention Network

NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council

Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

NSW Health Department

Royal Australasian College of Physicians - Falls Prevention Workshops Website

 

Systematic reviews

Falls in hospitals: a systematic review - Joanna Briggs Institute

Interventions for preventing falls in the elderly - Cochrane Library

Review: psychotropic drugs increase the risk of falls in older people - Evidence Based Mental Health

Meta-analysis: Several strategies prevent falls and subsequent injury in older persons - Evidence Based Medicine

 

Relevant Journals

Comprehensive listing of medical journals with web pages

Age and Ageing

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Brain

Brain Research

British Medical Journal

Clinical Biomechanics

Experimental Brain Research

Gait and Posture

Gerontology

Human Movement Science

Journal of Biomechanics

Journal of Gerontology - Medical Sciences

Journal of Physiology

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association

Medical Journal of Australia

Physical Therapy

 

Societies and Organisations

Australian National Falls Network

Australian Neuroscience Society

Australian Physiotherapy Association

Australasian Podiatry Council

European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC)

Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS)

International Society for Postural and Gait Research

International Society of Biomechanics

NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council

NSW Health Department

Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW

 

Australian Falls and Injury Data / Resources

Statewide Action Plan: Falls Prevention in Older People 2002-2006 (Queensland Health)

National Falls Prevention for Older People Initiative 

National Injury Surveillance Unit, Flinders University

Cost of falls in Australia, 1995-1996 (from National Injury Surveillance Unit) 

NSW Health Falls Prevention page

Injury Control Council of Western Australia falls data

Victorian Department of Human Services falls resources

 

Forthcoming conferences

 

Other Research Centres

Northwestern University Medical School Physical Therapy

Prof Campbell and associates: Accident Compensation Corporation, New Zealand

 

Databases and Utilities

Search MEDLINE with PubMed

Full-text articles from MedScape

BioMed Central: Full-text journals

PEDro - the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, University of Sydney

PubCrawler - automated MEDLINE searches for free

Clinical Information Access Project - free access to MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, MIMS online, etc for NSWHealth employees.

The Cochrane Library

Links to abstracts

Consumer summaries

 

OT Seeker - a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.

The Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine