Medication use and falls in community-dwelling older persons**An abstract of this work was presented at the Congress of Epidemiology 2001, Toronto, Canada, 13–16 June, 2001.

BACKGROUND: The association between injurious falls requiring a visit to the emergency department and various classes of medications was examined in a case-control study of community living persons aged 66 years and older. METHODS: Administrative databases from an urban health region provided the information used. Five controls for each case were randomly selected from community dwelling older persons who had not reported an injurious fall to …