Geriatric screening, fall characteristics and 3- and 12 months adverse outcomes in older patients visiting the emergency department with a fall

Table 2 Risk on adverse outcomes at 3 and 12 months in older patients with fall-related ED visits depending on fall characteristics and geriatric screening result

	Risk^a		Risk independent of high risk geriatric screening result^b
	3 months	12 months	3 months	12 months
Cause of fall
Extrinsic fall (n = 195)	ref	ref	ref	ref
Intrinsic fall (n = 115)	2.28 (1.37–3.81)	1.46 (0.88–2.42)	1.92 (1.13–3.26)	1.21 (0.71–2.06)
Unexplained fall (n = 25)	2.41 (1.00–5.82)	1.34 (0.55–3.28)	2.29 (0.94–5.57)	1.28 (0.52–3.18)
Location of fall
Outdoors (n = 123)	ref	ref	ref	ref
Indoors (n = 195)	2.39 (1.39–4.11)	2.01 (1.19–3.41)	2.14 (1.22–3.74)	1.78 (1.03–3.10)

Multivariable logistic regression analyses for the composite outcome of functional decline and/or mortality. Numbers represent Odds Ratios with 95% Confidence Intervals
^aModel adjusted for age and sex
^bModel adjusted for age, sex and high risk geriatric screening result
Interaction terms ‘high risk geriatric screening result’*'cause of the fall' and ‘high risk geriatric screening result’*'location of the fall' were not significant

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