Occupational Therapy: Literature Searches

For guidance in completing a literature search on falls prevention we've prepared a predetermined search strategy to help in locating current literature on this topic. Just click here to conduct the search. This search will be in PubMed (MEDLINE) database search combining the concepts of falls prevention and occupational therapy. This search will only give literature for the last 5 years.

More Falls prevention searches are below:

• Broad search for Australian articles (not limited by date)
• Reviews
• Guidelines: Search here for references about Falls Prevention with a focus on health service quality improvement. (Note: this is the more specific search, limited to a quality improvement focus. Not limited by date.) 

These searches were based on searches originally developed, tested and endorsed as part of the HeLiNS (Health Libraries for the National Standards) Research Project, a joint initiative of HLA and HLI (Health Libraries Inc).

Additional subject information: 

Falls prevention CEC (https://www.cec.health.nsw.gov.au/keep-patients-safe/falls-prevention)

The Falls Prevention Network website (https://fallsnetwork.neura.edu.au/)