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ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2026

Podiatry for preventing falls in older people in the community.

Hylton B Menz, Suzanne M Dyer, Sarah E Lamb, Catherine Sherrington

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Article in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Hylton B MenzDiscipline of Podiatry, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2045-3846
Suzanne M DyerFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2748-8547
Sarah E LambFaculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4349-7195
Catherine SherringtonInstitute for Musculoskeletal Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8934-4368

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of podiatry interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community.

Indexed as

Accidental FallsPodiatryAgedAging in PlaceHumans

Identifiers

PMID42549634
PMCPMC13435304

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.