JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 229-232, May 2007

The Use of Hip Protectors in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Survey of Nursing Home Staff

  • Anna M. Sawka, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology and Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Anna M. Sawka, MD, PhD, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street, Eaton North 12-212, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4.
    • ,
  • Madeline Nixon, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Lora Giangregorio, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Lehana Thabane, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Evaluation of Medicines, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • Jonathan D. Adachi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • Amiram Gafni, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Ron Goeree, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Program for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH), St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Parminder Raina, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Jennifer Ranford, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Alexandra Papaioannou, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Division of Geriatrics and Department of Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

published online 24 April 2007.

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 This study was funded by an Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Team Grant focused on Reducing the Burden of Injury in Canada from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Co-investigators on the ICE project are P. Raina, C. Macarthur, P. Holowaty, A. Howard, B. Morrongiello, and H. Shannon. Reviewers from the sponsoring agency provided a critique of the study design and methods at the grant application stage but the sponsoring agency had no further direct role in the study. Anna Sawka is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator.

 The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare related to the subject of this manuscript.

PII: S1525-8610(06)00625-6

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2006.12.023

JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 229-232, May 2007

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