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Clinical Preventive Services -
Counseling -
Household and
Recreational Injuries
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Recommendations:
Periodic counseling of the parents of
children on measures to reduce the risk
of unintentional household and
recreational injuries is recommended.
Counseling to prevent household and
recreational injuries is also
recommended for adolescents and adults
based on the proven efficacy of risk
reduction, although the effectiveness of
counseling these patients to prevent
injuries has not been adequately
evaluated. Persons with alcohol or drug
problems should be identified,
counseled, and monitored (see Screening
for Problem Drinking
and Screening
for Drug Abuse).
Those who use alcohol or illicit drugs
should be warned against engaging in
potentially dangerous activities while
intoxicated. Counseling elderly patients
on specific measures to prevent falls is
recommended based on fair evidence that
these measures reduce the risk of falls,
although the effectiveness of counseling
elders to prevent falls has not been
adequately evaluated. More intensive
individualized multifactorial
intervention is recommended for
high-risk elderly patients in settings
where adequate resources to deliver such
services are available. There is
insufficient evidence to recommend for
or against the use of external hip
protectors to prevent fall injuries.
Counseling to prevent motor vehicle and
pedestrian injuries is discussed in Counseling
to Prevent Motor Vehicle Injuries.
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