Table 2.

Incidence of fall events and follow-up times

	Separate intervention groups				Combined intervention groups
	Home safety + exercise programmes (n=98)	Home safety programme alone (n=100)	Exercise programme alone (n=97)	Social visits alone (n=96)	Home safety programme (n=198)	No home safety programme (n=193)	Exercise programme (n=195)	No exercise programme (n=196)
No of falls	108	64	120	151	172	271	228	215
Falls per person year	1.17	0.65	1.30	1.65	0.90	1.47	1.23	1.13
No (% of group) with ≥1 fall(s)	47 (48)	36 (36)	47 (48)	59 (61)	83 (42)	106 (55)	94 (48)	95 (48)
No (% of group) with ≥2 falls	24 (24)	16 (16)	27 (28)	29 (30)	40 (20)	56 (29)	51 (26)	45 (23)
No of injurious falls:
Any	61	39	53	65	100	118	114	104
Serious	11	10	4	4	21	8	15	14
Moderate	50	29	49	61	79	110	99	90
Injurious falls per person year:
Any	0.66	0.40	0.57	0.71	0.53	0.64	0.62	0.55
Serious	0.12	0.10	0.04	0.04	0.11	0.04	0.08	0.07
Moderate	0.54	0.30	0.53	0.67	0.42	0.60	0.54	0.48
No (%) of falls for which medical care sought	30 (28)	19 (30)	32 (27)	32 (21)	49 (28)	64 (24)	62 (27)	51 (24)
Mean (SD) follow-up (months)	11.30 (2.27)	11.77 (1.29)	11.46 (2.17)	11.41 (2.08)	11.54 (1.85)	11.44 (2.12)	11.38 (2.22)	11.60 (1.73)
Total follow-up (person years)	92.24	98.12	92.63	91.31	190.36	183.94	184.87	189.43