Citation

Lee YH, Song GG. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 2018; 319(13): 1382.

Affiliation

Division of Rheumatology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.2018.0204

PMID

29614172

Abstract

Dr Tricco and colleagues [JAMA. 2017;318(17):1687-1699. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.15006] compared interventions for preventing falls in older adults. The systematic review and network meta-analysis demonstrated that exercise alone and various combined interventions were associated with lower risk of injurious falls compared with usual care. Some methodological issues deserve comment.

First, exercise is a broadly defined concept because it is a heterogeneous physical activity with respect to type, intensity, and frequency. Exercise was classified as one of the categories of intervention in the network meta-analysis, but it was not clarified what exercise was effective for preventing falls among older adults...

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