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Review: evidence from individually randomised trials shows that hip protectors do not reduce hip fractures in elderly people

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.8.1.24

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    Parker MJ, Gillespie LD, Gillespie WJ. Hip protectors for preventing hip fractures in the elderly. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004;(3):CD001255.

    Q Do hip pads or protectors worn about the hip reduce the risk of hip fracture in elderly people?

    METHODS

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    Cochrane Musculoskeletal Injuries Group trials register (February 2004), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled trials (Issue 1, 2004), Medline (1966 to February 2004), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1988 to week 8, 2004), CINAHL (1982 to February 2004); reference lists of relevant articles; and contact with trialists. Ongoing trials were identified in the National Research Register and Current Controlled Trials (both accessed February 2004).

    Embedded ImageStudy selection and assessment:

    randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs that compared hip protectors with no hip protectors for reducing the incidence of hip fracture in elderly people living in the community or in institutional care. Methodological quality of individual studies was assessed based on 10 aspects of methodology (eg, …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Dr M J Parker, Orthopaedic Department, Peterborough District Hospital, Peterborough, UK. martyn.parkerpbh-tr.nhs.uk

    • Source of funding: no external funding.