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Table 1 Characteristics all frail patients and the frail patients with fall history and/or FOF

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%