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| April 01, 2001 | Gaby, Alan R. | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Some 1,801 ambulatory but frail elderly individuals (1,409 women and 392 men; mean age, 82 years) were randomly assigned, in a 1:2 ratio, either to a group that wore a hip protector or to a control group. The hip protector (KPH Hip Protector, Respecta, Helsinki, Finland) was a convex device, with its deepest portion over the greater trochanter. It was anatomically designed to shunt the energy of the impact from a fall away from the greater trochanter to the surrounding soft tissues. During the follow-up period (611 person-years in the active-treatment group and 1,458 person-years in the control group), the rates of hip fracture were 21.3 and 46.0 per 1,000 person-years in the…

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