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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Strategies to implement multifactorial falls prevention interventions in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Evaluation of implementation strategiesa for multifactorial falls prevention interventionsb in community-dwelling older persons

• English, Dutch, and German

• Multiple settings (e.g., hospitals, nursing homes) only included if specific information on the communityc was available

• Experiences, perceptions, and needs of target group (primary research)

• Recruitment was done in hospitals, intervention needed to be coordinated in the communityc

• Implementation strategiesa

 ° Not described

 ° Not evaluated in the community settingc

• Editorials, opinion papers, studies only reported as conference abstract, systematic reviews, meta-analysis

• Other settings (e.g., hospitals, nursing homes)

• Topics: education (also peer education) was the only implementation strategy, specific population (e.g., frailty, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases)

  1. aImplementation strategy — “A method or technique designed to enhance adoption of a ‘clinical’ intervention” [19]. bMultifactorial falls prevention intervention — “These interventions consist of two or more components tailored to the individual fall risk profile of the older person” [11]. cCommunity — “Home or places of residence that do not provide residential health-related care” [11]