TY  - SER
AU  - Santesso N.
AU  - Carrasco- Labra A.
AU  - Brignardello-Petersen R.
TI  - Hip protectors for preventing hip fractures in older people
KW  - Fractures de maluc
KW  - Prevenció
KW  - Persones grans
N2  - Background are at high risk of falling and a hip fracture may occur after a fall. Hip protectors have been advocated as a means to reduce the risk of hip fracture. Hip protectors are plastic shields (hard) or foam pads (soft), usually fitted in pockets in specially designed underwear. several times, most recently in 2010. to as hip pads or hip protector pads) reduces the risk of fracturing the hip in older people. Register (December 2012), theCochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library 2012, Issue 12), MEDLINE (1950 to week 3 November 2012), MEDLINE In-Process (18 December 2012), EMBASE (1988 to 2012 Week 50), CINAHL (1982 to December 2012), BioMed Central (January 2010), trial registers and reference lists of relevant articles. intervention group provided with hip protectors with a control group not provided with hip protectors. sought additional information from trialists. Data were pooled using fixed-effect or random-effects models as appropriate. included approximately 17,000 people (mean age range 78 to 86 years). Most studies were overall at low risk of bias for fracture outcomes. Trials tested hard or soft hip protectors enclosed in special underwear in 18 studies
TI  - Santesso, Nancy; Carrasco-Labra, Alonso; Brignardello-Petersen, Romina
T2  - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
AB  - Background are at high risk of falling and a hip fracture may occur after a fall. Hip protectors have been advocated as a means to reduce the risk of hip fracture. Hip protectors are plastic shields (hard) or foam pads (soft), usually fitted in pockets in specially designed underwear. several times, most recently in 2010. to as hip pads or hip protector pads) reduces the risk of fracturing the hip in older people. Register (December 2012), theCochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library 2012, Issue 12), MEDLINE (1950 to week 3 November 2012), MEDLINE In-Process (18 December 2012), EMBASE (1988 to 2012 Week 50), CINAHL (1982 to December 2012), BioMed Central (January 2010), trial registers and reference lists of relevant articles. intervention group provided with hip protectors with a control group not provided with hip protectors. sought additional information from trialists. Data were pooled using fixed-effect or random-effects models as appropriate. included approximately 17,000 people (mean age range 78 to 86 years). Most studies were overall at low risk of bias for fracture outcomes. Trials tested hard or soft hip protectors enclosed in special underwear in 18 studies.
ER  -