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Video for large clinical trial that found that screening for fall risk and targeted exercise or multifactorial intervention did not result in fewer fractures than advice by mail alone in community-dwelling older people

Last month we summarised the PreFIT clinical trial by Lamb et al. The trial concluded that screening for fall risk and targeted exercise or multifactorial intervention did not result in fewer fractures than advice by mail alone in community-dwelling older people.

A video of Professor Sallie Lamb explaining the PreFIT results is available at https://youtu.be/VSvcfBLs2AU.

Lamb SE, et al. Screening and intervention to prevent falls and fractures in older people. N Engl J Med 2020;383(19):1848-59

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