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Article: Meteorological factors to fall: a systematic review

TitleMeteorological factors to fall: a systematic review
Authors
KeywordsFall
Meteorological factors
Temperature
Weather
Issue Date2018
PublisherSpringer Verlag. The Journal's web site is located at http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00484/index.htm
Citation
International Journal of Biometeorology, 2018, v. 62 n. 12, p. 2073-2088 How to Cite?
AbstractThere existed systematic review on studies investigating the association between hip fractures and external risk factors including meteorological factors. Albeit the fact that most serious common fall injury is a hip fracture, it cannot account for all injuries forms of fall. There was a lack of systematic review covering all fall-related injury or deaths to thoroughly summarise meteorological aspects of fall. This study aimed to systematically review epidemiological studies of fall and fall-related circumstances without restriction to hip fracture. A systematic search in three databases, namely PubMed, CINAHL Plus and EMBASE, was performed. Searches in two Chinese databases named the Wanfang Med Online and the China Journal Net were done in addition. A total of 29 studies were identified. The study site, fall cases identification, meteorological factors and findings of all the selected studies were being extracted. The quality of the studies was critically appraised. We identified some of the environmental risk factors to fall among those studies. Ranging from the lower ambient temperature, the presence of snow cover, seasonal factors, and time of the day to location of fall, these factors have different levels of impact related to higher incidence or mortality of fall. To conclude, a better understanding of injury mechanisms is a prerequisite for preventive interventions.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/277375
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 3.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.710
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dc.contributor.authorCHOW, KP-
dc.contributor.authorFong, DYT-
dc.contributor.authorWang, MP-
dc.contributor.authorWong, JYH-
dc.contributor.authorChau, PH-
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-20T08:49:52Z-
dc.date.available2019-09-20T08:49:52Z-
dc.date.issued2018-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Biometeorology, 2018, v. 62 n. 12, p. 2073-2088-
dc.identifier.issn0020-7128-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/277375-
dc.description.abstractThere existed systematic review on studies investigating the association between hip fractures and external risk factors including meteorological factors. Albeit the fact that most serious common fall injury is a hip fracture, it cannot account for all injuries forms of fall. There was a lack of systematic review covering all fall-related injury or deaths to thoroughly summarise meteorological aspects of fall. This study aimed to systematically review epidemiological studies of fall and fall-related circumstances without restriction to hip fracture. A systematic search in three databases, namely PubMed, CINAHL Plus and EMBASE, was performed. Searches in two Chinese databases named the Wanfang Med Online and the China Journal Net were done in addition. A total of 29 studies were identified. The study site, fall cases identification, meteorological factors and findings of all the selected studies were being extracted. The quality of the studies was critically appraised. We identified some of the environmental risk factors to fall among those studies. Ranging from the lower ambient temperature, the presence of snow cover, seasonal factors, and time of the day to location of fall, these factors have different levels of impact related to higher incidence or mortality of fall. To conclude, a better understanding of injury mechanisms is a prerequisite for preventive interventions.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSpringer Verlag. The Journal's web site is located at http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00484/index.htm-
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Biometeorology-
dc.rightsThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]-
dc.subjectFall-
dc.subjectMeteorological factors-
dc.subjectTemperature-
dc.subjectWeather-
dc.titleMeteorological factors to fall: a systematic review-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailFong, DYT: dytfong@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailWang, MP: mpwang@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailWong, JYH: janetyh@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailChau, PH: phpchau@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityFong, DYT=rp00253-
dc.identifier.authorityWang, MP=rp01863-
dc.identifier.authorityWong, JYH=rp01561-
dc.identifier.authorityChau, PH=rp00574-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00484-018-1627-y-
dc.identifier.pmid30368675-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85055957779-
dc.identifier.hkuros305588-
dc.identifier.volume62-
dc.identifier.issue12-
dc.identifier.spage2073-
dc.identifier.epage2088-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000450649400002-
dc.publisher.placeGermany-
dc.identifier.issnl0020-7128-

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