Suzuki Takao
Research Institute, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan.
Clin Calcium. 2013 May;23(5):661-7.
For the prevention of fall and its associated injuries including various fractures among the elderly, some simple and clinical screening tools for prediction of falls for the community-dwelling elderly have been developed. In Japan, Toba et al. (2005) explored a portable Fall Risk Index (FRI) consisting of 22items for the elderly living in the community. Among these 22 items, selected seven items which were revealed as independent risk factors for previous falls, are also now considered as good predictor for future falls with the sensitivity and specificity of 0.65 and 0.72, respectively. Thus, FRI is considered as useful screening tools to identify high risk elderly people of falls in the community in Japan.
为预防老年人跌倒及其相关伤害，包括各种骨折，已经开发了一些简单的临床筛查工具，用于预测社区居住老年人的跌倒情况。在日本，鸟羽等人（2005年）为社区居住的老年人探索了一种由22个项目组成的便携式跌倒风险指数（FRI）。在这22个项目中，选出了7个被确定为既往跌倒独立危险因素的项目，目前也被认为是未来跌倒的良好预测指标，其敏感性和特异性分别为0.65和0.72。因此，FRI被认为是识别日本社区中跌倒高危老年人的有用筛查工具。
