RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017 JF Injury Prevention JO Inj Prev FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP i67 OP i74 DO 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043347 VO 26 IS Suppl 2 A1 Juanita A Haagsma A1 Branko F Olij A1 Marek Majdan A1 Ed F van Beeck A1 Theo Vos A1 Chris D Castle A1 Zachary V Dingels A1 Jack T Fox A1 Erin B Hamilton A1 Zichen Liu A1 Nicholas L S Roberts A1 Dillon O Sylte A1 Olatunde Aremu A1 Till Winfried Bärnighausen A1 Antonio M Borzì A1 Andrew M Briggs A1 Juan J Carrero A1 Cyrus Cooper A1 Ziad El-Khatib A1 Christian Lycke Ellingsen A1 Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad A1 Irina Filip A1 Florian Fischer A1 Josep Maria Haro A1 Jost B Jonas A1 Aliasghar A Kiadaliri A1 Ai Koyanagi A1 Raimundas Lunevicius A1 Tuomo J Meretoja A1 Shafiu Mohammed A1 Ashish Pathak A1 Amir Radfar A1 Salman Rawaf A1 David Laith Rawaf A1 Lidia Sanchez Riera A1 Ivy Shiue A1 Tommi Juhani Vasankari A1 Spencer L James A1 Suzanne Polinder YR 2020 UL http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_2/i67.abstract AB Introduction Falls in older aged adults are an important public health problem. Insight into differences in fall-related injury rates between countries can serve as important input for identifying and evaluating prevention strategies. The objectives of this study were to compare Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 estimates on incidence, mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to fall-related injury in older adults across 22 countries in the Western European region and to examine changes over a 28-year period.Methods We performed a secondary database descriptive study using the GBD 2017 results on age-standardised fall-related injury in older adults aged 70 years and older in 22 countries from 1990 to 2017.Results In 2017, in the Western European region, 13 840 per 100 000 (uncertainty interval (UI) 11 837–16 113) older adults sought medical treatment for fall-related injury, ranging from 7594 per 100 000 (UI 6326–9032) in Greece to 19 796 per 100 000 (UI 15 536–24 233) in Norway. Since 1990, fall-related injury DALY rates showed little change for the whole region, but patterns varied widely between countries. Some countries (eg, Belgium and Netherlands) have lost their favourable positions due to an increasing fall-related injury burden of disease since 1990.Conclusions From 1990 to 2017, there was considerable variation in fall-related injury incidence, mortality, DALY rates and its composites in the 22 countries in the Western European region. It may be useful to assess which fall prevention measures have been taken in countries that showed continuous low or decreasing incidence, death and DALY rates despite ageing of the population.