Table 2.

Overview of identified reviews and extracted data for the meta-analysis.

Study and fall risk assessment measure		Sample size, N		Sensitivity, %		Specificity, %		Area under the curve (SE)
Perell (2001) [39]
	Berg Balance Scale		—a		77.0		86.0		—
	Dynamic Gait Index		133		85.0		38.0		—
	Elderly Fall Screening Test		361		93.0		78.0		—
	Timed Up and Go		30		87.0		87.0		—
	Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (Tinetti)		79		80.0		74.0		—
Oliver et al (2004) [26]
	Downton Fall Risk Index		135		90.6		26.8		—
	Innes Score		2968		89.3		73.5		—
	Morse Score		2689; 483		73.2; 95.7		75.1; 54.0		—
	Schmid Score		2405		92.5		78.2		—
	STRATIFYb		395; 446; 432		93; 54.4; 73.7		87.7; 87.6; 45.2		—
Aranda-Gallardo et al (2013) [36]
	Hendrich Fall Risk Model		—		62.8		64.0		—
	Morse Fall Scale		—		75.5		67.7		—
	STRATIFY		—		80.0		67.5		—
Matarese et al (2014) [40]
	Hendrich II Fall Risk Model		—		92		37		—
	STRATIFY		—		63		71		—
Lusardi et al (2017) [25]
	Berg Balance Scale		1130		41		88		—
	Five Times Sit-To-Stand test		3319		59		63		—
	Timed Up and Go (cut off >0.74 s/≥12 s)		6410		56; 31		65; 85		—
	Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (Tinetti)		1374		53		69		—
	Single-Limb stance (cut off >6.5/>12.7)		3015		19; 90		63; 49		—
Park and Lee (2017) [41]
	Berg Balance Scale		1690		72		73		0.84 (0.02)
Nunan et al (2018) [37]
	Downton Fall Risk Index		—		91		39		—
	Five Times Sit-To-Stand test		—		86		91		—
	Timed Up and Go		—		49		72		—
	Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (Tinetti)		—		64; 85		66; 56		—
	STRATIFY		—		50		76		—
Park (2018) [38]
	Berg Balance Scale		570		73		90		0.97 (0.02)
	Downton Fall Risk Index		231		84		26		—
	Hendrich II Fall Risk Model		1754		76		60		0.75 (0.05)
	Mobility Interaction chart		286		53		73		—
	STRATIFY		2245		89		67		0.81 (0.30)
	Timed Up and Go		427		76		49		0.80 (0.04)
	Tinetti Balance scale		284		68		56		—

^aNot applicable.

^bSTRATIFY: St Thomas’s Risk Assessment Tool in Falling Elderly.