@article{ref1,
title="First eye cataract surgery and hospitalization from injuries due to a fall: a population-based study",
journal="Journal of the American Geriatrics Society",
year="2012",
author="Meuleners, Lynn B. and Lee, Andy H. and Ng, Jonathon Q. and Morlet, Nigel and Fraser, Michelle L.",
volume="60",
number="9",
pages="1730-1733",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To assess the association between first eye cataract surgery and hospitalization from injuries due to a fall in older adults at the population level. DESIGN: Retrospective population-based study. SETTING: Western Australian Hospital Morbidity Data System and Western Australian mortality data. PARTICIPANTS: Six hundred individuals aged 60 and older hospitalized from injuries due to a fall between 2004 and 2008 in Western Australia. MEASUREMENTS: Hospital admission from injuries due to a fall. RESULTS: Of the 15,295 individuals who underwent cataract surgery in one eye only, 600 (3.9%) were involved in 625 hospital admissions from injuries due to a fall 1 year before (n = 273) or 1 year after (n = 352) first eye cataract surgery; 30% of these hospitalizations were for femoral neck fractures. Poisson generalized estimating equations confirmed 27% more (adjusted risk ratio = 1.27, 95% confidence interval = 1.04-1.56 P = .02) hospitalizations from injuries due to a fall in the year after first eye cataract surgery than in the year before. CONCLUSION: First eye cataract surgery was associated with more hospital admissions from injuries due to a fall in the year after cataract surgery than in the year before. Further research is needed to determine the underlying causes and reasons.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-8614",
doi="10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04098.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04098.x"
}