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Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Delbaere, K., Zijlstra, G., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., Masud, T., Skelton, D. A., Morris, R. W., & Kendrick, D. (in press). Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw036

Objective: To determine the effect of exercise interventions on fear of falling in community-living people aged ≥65 years.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Bibliographic databases, trial registers and other sources were searched for ran... Read More about Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres (2016)
Journal Article
Watson, M. C., Mulvaney, C. A., Timblin, C., Stewart, J., Coupland, C., Deave, T., Hayes, M., & Kendrick, D. (in press). Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres. Health Education Journal, 75(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916629816

Objective: To ascertain the activities undertaken by children’s centres to prevent unintentional injuries in the under-fives and, in particular, the prevention of falls, poisoning and scalds.
Design: A questionnaire was posted to managers of 851 chi... Read More about Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres.

Comparing the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of a new community in-reach rehabilitation service with the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of an established hospital-based rehabilitation service for older people: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with microcost and qualitative analysis – the Community In-reach Rehabilitation And Care Transition (CIRACT) study (2016)
Journal Article
Sahota, O., Pulikottil-Jacob, R., Marshall, F., Montgomery, A., Tan, W., Sach, T., Logan, P., Kendrick, D., Watson, A., Walker, M., & Waring, J. (2016). Comparing the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of a new community in-reach rehabilitation service with the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of an established hospital-based rehabilitation service for older people: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with microcost and qualitative analysis – the Community In-reach Rehabilitation And Care Transition (CIRACT) study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 4(7), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr04070

Background:
Older people represent a significant proportion of patients admitted to hospital as a medical emergency. Compared with the care of younger patients, their care is more challenging, their stay in hospital is much longer, their risk of ho... Read More about Comparing the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of a new community in-reach rehabilitation service with the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of an established hospital-based rehabilitation service for older people: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with microcost and qualitative analysis – the Community In-reach Rehabilitation And Care Transition (CIRACT) study.

Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people (2016)
Journal Article
Kojima, G., Iliffe, S., Morris, R., Taniguchi, Y., Kendrick, D., Skelton, D. A., Masud, T., & Bowling, A. (in press). Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people. Quality of Life Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1213-2

Purpose:
To investigate associations between baseline frailty status and subsequent changes in QOL over time among community-dwelling older people.

Methods:
Among 363 community-dwelling older people ≥65 years, frailty was measured using Frailt... Read More about Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people.

Cycling infrastructure for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists (2015)
Journal Article
Mulvaney, C. A., Smith, S., Watson, M. C., Parkin, J., Coupland, C., Miller, P., Kendrick, D., & McClintock, H. (2015). Cycling infrastructure for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010415.pub2

Background: Cycling is an attractive form of transport. It is beneficial to the individual as a form of physical activity that may fit more readily into an individual’s daily routine, such as for cycling to work and to the shops, than other physical... Read More about Cycling infrastructure for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists.

Risk and protective factors for falls on stairs in young children: multicentre case–control study (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Zou, K., Ablewhite, J., Watson, M., Coupland, C., Kay, B., Hawkins, A., & Reading, R. (2016). Risk and protective factors for falls on stairs in young children: multicentre case–control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101(10), 909-916. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308486

Aim: To investigate risk and protective factors for stair falls in children aged <5 years.

Methods: Multicentre case–control study at hospitals, minor injury units and general practices in and around four UK study centres. Cases were children with...

Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care (2015)
Journal Article
Christie, N., Beckett, K., Earthy, S., Kellezi, B., Sleney, J., Barnes, J., Jones, T., & Kendrick, D. (2016). Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care. British Journal of General Practice, 66(642), e24-e31. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp15X688141

Background: In the UK, studies suggest that the transition from hospital to home after an injury can be a difficult time and many patients report feeling inadequately prepared. Patients often use primary care services after hospital discharge. These... Read More about Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care.

Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study (2015)
Journal Article
Benford, P., Young, B., Coupland, C., Watson, M., Hindmarch, P., Hayes, M., Goodenough, T., Majsak-Newman, G., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study. Injury Prevention, 21(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041581

Background: Childhood falls are an important global public health problem, but there is a lack of evidence about their prevention. Falls on one level result in considerable morbidity and they are costly to health services.

Objective: To estimate o... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study.

Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years (2015)
Journal Article
Ablewhite, J., McDaid, L., Hawkins, A., Peel, I., Goodenough, T., Deave, T., Stewart, J., Watson, M., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years. BMC Public Health, 15(983), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2252-x

BACKGROUND: Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Many unintentional injuries experienced by children aged under 5years occur within the home and are preventable. The aim of this study was to explore the approa... Read More about Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years.

Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children's centres (2015)
Journal Article
Goodenough, T., Kay, B., Deave, T., Towner, E., Stewart, J., Ablewhite, J., Hawkins, A., McDaid, L. A., Pitchforth, E., Beckett, K., & Kendrick, D. (2016). Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children's centres. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 54(2), 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2015.1065710

The aim of this study is to understand barriers and facilitators to the delivery of injury prevention programmes in English children's centres (CCs). Unintentional injury is a major cause of disability and death in children aged 1–4 years; those livi... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children's centres.

Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., Tata, L. J., Kendrick, D., & Orton, E. (2015). Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041561

Background: English national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths. With recent linkage of a large primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), with secondary care and mortality data we... Read More about Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance.

Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Drummond, A. E., Logan, P., Barnes, J., & Worthington, E. (2015). Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries. Journal of Transport and Health, 2(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2015.06.002

Each year more than 6,000 people are injured on public buses in the UK, approximately half of whom are aged 65 or over. This review synthesises the published literature on the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring in older people using pub... Read More about Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries.

“Keeping Moving”: factors associated with sedentary behaviour among older people recruited to an exercise promotion trial in general practice (2015)
Journal Article
Heseltine, R., Skelton, D., Kendrick, D., Morris, R., Griffin, M., Haworth, D., Masud, T., & Iliffe, S. (2015). “Keeping Moving”: factors associated with sedentary behaviour among older people recruited to an exercise promotion trial in general practice. BMC Family Practice, 16(67), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0284-z

Background

Sedentary behaviour is detrimental to health, even in those who achieve recommended levels of physical activity. Efforts to increase physical activity in older people so that they reach beneficial levels have been disappointing. Reducin... Read More about “Keeping Moving”: factors associated with sedentary behaviour among older people recruited to an exercise promotion trial in general practice.

Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., Orton, E., Tata, L. J., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-305715

Aim: To investigate risk factors for first long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years old in order to provide evidence about which families could benefit from injury prevention interventions.
Methods: Population-based matched nested case–control... Read More about Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study.

Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study (2015)
Journal Article
Duckham, R. L., Masud, T., Taylor, R., Kendrick, D., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., Morris, R., Gage, H., Skelton, D. A., Dinan-Young, S., & Brooke-Wavell, K. (2015). Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study. Age and Ageing, 44(4), 573-579. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv055

Background: exercise can reduce osteoporotic fracture risk by strengthening bone or reducing fall risk. Falls prevention exercise programmes can reduce fall incidence, and also include strengthening exercises suggested to load bone, but there is litt... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study.

The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Achana, F. A., Sutton, A. J., Kendrick, D., Wynn, P., Young, B., Jones, D. R., Hubbard, S. J., & Cooper, N. J. (2015). The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0121122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121122

Background: There is evidence from 2 previous meta-analyses that interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours are effective in increasing a range of poison prevention practices in households with children. The published meta-analyses compare... Read More about The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis.

Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community-dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Kojima, G., Masud, T., Kendrick, D., Morris, R. W., Gawler, S., Treml, J., & Iliffe, S. (2015). Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community-dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial. BMC Geriatrics, 15(38), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0039-7

Background

Falling is common among older people. The Timed-Up-and-Go Test (TUG) is recommended as a screening tool for falls but its predictive value has been challenged. The objectives of this study were to examine the ability of TUG to predict f... Read More about Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community-dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial.

Preventing childhood scalds within the home: overview of systematic reviews and a systematic review of primary studies (2015)
Journal Article
Zou, K., Wynn, P. M., Miller, P., Hindmarch, P., Majsak-Newman, G., Young, B., Hayes, M., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Preventing childhood scalds within the home: overview of systematic reviews and a systematic review of primary studies. Burns, 41(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2014.11.002

Objective: To synthesise and evaluate the evidence of the effectiveness of interventions to prevent scalds in children.
Methods: An overview of systematic reviews (SR) and a SR of primary studies were performed evaluating interventions to prevent sc... Read More about Preventing childhood scalds within the home: overview of systematic reviews and a systematic review of primary studies.