| dc.description.sponsorship | Panel members and affiliations
The American Geriatrics Society and British Geriatrics
Society Panel on the Clinical Practice Guideline for the
Prevention of Falls in Older Persons includes: Rose Anne M.
Kenny, MD, (Chair), Trinity College and St James Hospital,
Dublin, Ireland; Laurence Z. Rubenstein, MD, MPH
(Chair), UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA;
Mary E. Tinetti, MD (Chair), Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, CT; Kathryn Brewer, PT, MEd,
GCS, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, AZ; Kathleen A.
Cameron, RPh, MPH, American Society of Consultant
Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation, Alexandria,
VA; Elizabeth A. Capezuti, PhD, RN, New York University
College of Nursing, New York, NY; David P. John,
MD, Caritas Carney Hospital, Dorchester, MA; Sallie
Lamb, DPhil (Oxon), MSc, MCSP, SRP, University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK; Finbarr Martin, MD, MSc, FRCP, St
Thomas' Hospital, London, England; Paul H. Rockey, MD,
MPH, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL; Mary
Suther, National Association for Home Care and Hospice,
Dallas, TX; Elizabeth Walker Peterson, MPH, OTR/L,
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
The following organizations endorsed the Clinical
Practice Guideline for the Prevention of Falls in Older Persons:
The American College of Emergency Physicians, the
American Medical Association, the American Occupational
Therapy Association, and the American Physical Therapy
Association.
Oded Susskind, MPH, Medical Education Consultant,
Brookline, Massachusetts, provided guideline development
facilitation. Sue Radcliff, Independent Researcher, Denver,
Colorado, provided research services. Katherine Addleman,
PhD, provided editorial services. Marianna Drootin, Elvy
Ickowicz, MPH, and Nancy Lundebjerg, MPA, American
Geriatrics Society, New York, New York, provided additional
research and administrative support.
Peer Review: The following organizations with special
interest and expertise in the prevention of falls in older
persons provided peer review of a preliminary draft of
this guideline: American Academy of Family Physicians,
American Academy of Home Care Physicians, American
Academy of Ophthalmology, American Academy of
Otolaryngology, American Academy of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, American College of Emergency Physicians,
American College of Physicians, American Medical
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Association, American Occupational Therapy Association,
American Physical Therapy Association, British Association
for Emergency Medicine, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
College of Occupational Therapists (UK),
National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Gerontological
Advanced Practice Nurses Association, Royal
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Society for Academic
Emergency Medicine, and the Society for General
Internal Medicine.
Financial Disclosure: Dr. Tinetti, Dr. Rubenstein, Dr.
Kenny, Dr. Lamb, Dr. Rockey, Ms. Brewer, Ms. Peterson,
and Mr. Susskind report no financial relationships with relevant
commercial entities. Ms. Cameron holds shares in
Johnson & Johnson. Ms. Suther holds shares in various
pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Capezuti is a board member
of Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Dr. John receives grants
from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr.
Martin has received hospitality, but no fees from Pfizer,
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