Table 3.
Results of interaction tests for subgroup analyses
| Outcome | Hospital v community | Risk factors v unselected | Doctor v no doctor | Knowledge or referral v high intensity intervention | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| χ2 | P value | χ2 | P value | χ2 | P value | χ2 | P value | ||||
| No of fallers | 0 | 1 | 2.75 | 0.10 | 0 | 1 | 3.95 | 0.05 | |||
| Fall related injuries | 0.1 | 0.75 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.10 | 0.75 | — | — | |||
| No of recurrent fallers | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.63 | 0.43 | |||
| Admissions to hospital | 0.75 | 0.39 | 0.06 | 0.81 | 1.12 | 0.29 | 0.32 | 0.57 | |||
| Attendance at emergency department | — | — | — | — | 2.80 | 0.09 | 2.80 | 0.09 | |||
| Death | 0.23 | 0.63 | 1.80 | 0.18 | 0.45 | 0.50 | 0.29 | 0.59 | |||
| Move to institutional care | 0.30 | 0.58 | — | — | 0.30 | 0.58 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
Subgroup analyses were done only when at least two trials were in each subgroup.