From: Falls prevention at GP practices: a description of daily practice
All frail patients | Frail patients with fall history and/or FOF | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | |
1394 | 505 | 889 | 726 | 235 | 491 | |
Mean age | 84.5 | 83.8 | 84.9 | 85.0 | 84.7 | 85.1 |
(SD, range) | (5.81; 75–102) | (5.65; 75–100) | (5.87; 75–102) | (5.82 75–101) | (5.88 75–100) | (5.79 75–101) |
ICPC code related to | ||||||
A. General | ||||||
Feeling ill/Overall decline/Frailty | 24.4% | 26.5% | 23.2% | 16.9% | 17.9% | 16.5% |
Fainting/Syncope | 3.5% | 4.6% | 2.9% | 4.0% | 6.0% | 3.1% |
Trauma/ Injury NOS/ Falls | 7.5% | 6.1% | 8.2% | 12.1% | 10.2% | 13.0% |
Elderly care/Preventive operations | 6.3% | 5.3% | 6.9% | 5.4% | 4.3% | 5.9% |
F. Eye | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.5% | 1.8% | 0.9% | 2.2% |
H. Ear | 2.4% | 2.6% | 2.4% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.6% |
K. Circulatory | 26.5% | 31.3% | 23.7% | 23.7% | 28.9% | 21.2% |
L. Muscoloskeletal | 25.5% | 17.0% | 30.4% | 28.7% | 21.3% | 32.2% |
N. Neurological | 10.5% | 12.1% | 9.7% | 13.6% | 16.2% | 12.4% |