Table 3.

Cross tabulation of falls by best agreement between monthly ascertainment and 12-month recall category question.

12-month falls recall	Daily falls calendar				Sensitivity of 12-month recall
	No falls	Few  (1 to 4 falls)	Several  (5 to 7 falls)	Regularly  (8+ falls)
No falls	1128	203	3	0
Few	65	589	11	2	68%
Several	5	701	7	4	30%
Regularly	0	4	2	3	33%
	1198	866	23	9

¹Only 14% (n = 10/70) had 4 falls, so reclassifying the criteria of the “few” category to be only 1 to 3 falls did not improve the agreement between the daily falls calendar totals and the 12-month falls recall. Sixty-five percent of these women fell only once or twice (n = 46/70).