Table 4.
Immediate consequences of falls beyond home (N = 249).
| All | Group | ||||
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| Single | Repeat | Very frequent | |||
| Falls (N) | 249 | 19 | 152 | 78 | |
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| Injury | Minor injuries | 45 (18%) | 5 (26%) | 32 (21%) | 8 (10%) |
| Head or facial injury | 19 (8%) | 2 (11%) | 16 (11%) | 1 (1%) | |
| No injury* | 16 (6%) | 2 (11%) | 8 (5%) | 6 (8%) | |
| Shaken or embarrassed | 12 (5%) | 0 | 12 (8%) | 0 | |
| Fracture/dislocation | 8 (3%) | 1 (5%) | 6 (4%) | 1 (1%) | |
| Total | 100 (40%) | 10 (53%) | 74 (49%) | 16 (21%) | |
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| Recovery | Stood alone | 75 (30%) | 7 (37%) | 40 (26%) | 28 (36%) |
| Stood with known help | 49 (20%) | 1 (5%) | 30 (20%) | 18 (23%) | |
| Stood with stranger's help | 49 (20%) | 5 (26%) | 27 (18%) | 17 (22%) | |
| Total | 173 (69%) | 13 (68%) | 97 (64%) | 63 (81%) | |
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| Input | Paramedics attended | 15 (6%) | 1 (5%) | 9 (6%) | 5 (6%) |
| Attended A and E | 16 (6%) | 2 (11%) | 13 (9%) | 1 (1%) | |
| Seen by doctor or nurse | 7 (3%) | 0 | 7 (5%) | 0 | |
| Admitted to hospital | 2 (1%) | 0 | 2 (1%) | 0 | |
| Total | 40 (16%) | 3 (16%) | 31 (20%) | 6 (8%) | |
N: number, %: percent, *signifies that the comment was “no injury sustained,” for example.