Do community pharmacists have a role in falls prevention?

• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-CPS-068
• By: JOHN, Dai (Cardiff University)
• Co-author(s): Dai N John: Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Matt Ivory: Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  O. Lloyd Griffiths: Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Sam Maurice: Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Tim Banner: Pharmacy, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom;Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Falls are the second most common cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths worldwide.

  Methods

  All 716 community pharmacies in Wales were sent 20 questionnaires in 2017 for a convenience sample of pharmacy users to complete. Age, gender, medicines and whether or not they had fallen in past 12 months were some of the data collected
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