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      Health Promotion Board–Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community

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          The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community to provide health professionals in Singapore with recommendations for evidence-based assessments and interventions for falls prevention. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary of the key recommendations from the HPB-MOH CPG on Falls Prevention among Older Adults Living in the Community for the information of SMJ readers. The chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Health Promotion Board website: http://www.hpb.gov. sg/cpg-falls-prevention. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.

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          Journal
          Singapore Med J
          Singapore Med J
          SMJ
          Singapore Medical Journal
          Singapore Medical Association (Singapore )
          0037-5675
          May 2015
          : 56
          : 5
          : 298-301
          Affiliations
          [1] List of institutions in alphabetical order Health Promotion Board, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, St Luke’s Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital
          Author notes
          Correspondence: Dr Shyamala Thilagaratnam, Director, Health and Community Outreach Division, Health Promotion Board, 3 Second Hospital Avenue, Singapore 168937. Shyamala_thilagaratnam@ 123456hpb.gov.sg
          Article
          SMJ-56-298
          10.11622/smedj.2015073
          4447933
          26034320
          da05304c-bd6e-4c66-acfb-ca7de037d195
          Copyright: © Singapore Medical Association

          This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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