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Table 1 Types of documents used in the analysis

From: Assessing the scalability of an integrated falls prevention service for community-dwelling older people: a mixed methods study

Type of document

Details

Service documents (unpublished)

- Project initiation document

- Evaluation report on service (including results of interviews conducted with service providers delivering clinics)

Policy documents

- International [23], national [24, 25] and regional policy documents [26] on falls prevention in older people

- National health policy literature [27,28,29]

Clinical guidance

- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines [30, 31]

- American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society guidelines [32]

- Health Quality and Safety Commission in New Zealand review (2020) [33]

General falls literature

- Research on prevalence [23, 34,35,36,37,38] and impact of falls [34, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47] on older people, and on effectiveness of falls interventions [48,49,50,51,52,53,54]