We read with great interest the article by Dandona et al1 published recently.

The authors reported the incidence and characteristics of non-fatal fall injury in a rural population.

We recently performed a study on falls in a wide sample of disability patients, inpatients and outpatients, referred to our rehabilitation centre, and we feel that we can provide further data on this important topic. A more specific knowledge of falls in a rehabilitation setting may be useful to prevent falls and to reduce …