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DR KEITH HILL



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Organization: Physiotherapy, Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow), Honorary (Senior Fellow)

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Applied Science - Physiotherapy Lincoln
Title Not Known La Trobe University
Doctor of Philosophy Institution not known

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
The effect of antiepileptic medication on indices of bone health and risk factors for falls and fractures Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2006
EPILEPSY, BONE HEALTH AND FRACTURE RISK - GAIT AND BALANCE STUDY Chief Investigator ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Medical Research and Technology Grants 22/11/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Relationship between age and measures of balance, strength and gait: linear and non-linear analyses
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Clinical Science
    Volume: 114
    Page numbers: 719-727
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Additional exercise for older subacute hospital inpatients to prevent falls: benefits and barriers to implementation and evaluation


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical Rehabilitation
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 742-753
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  • The influence of Otolith Dysfunction on the clinical presentation of people with a peripheral vestibular disorder


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physical Therapy
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 143-152
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  • Design-related bias in hospital fall risk screening tool predictive accuracy evaluations: systematic review and meta-analysis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Gerontology Series A - Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
    Volume: 62
    Page numbers: 664-672
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Hip protector use amongst older hospital inpatients: compliance and functional consequences.


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Age and Ageing
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 520-523
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  • Recurrent events counted in evaluations of predictive accuracy.


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1155-1161
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  • A new instrument for targeting falls prevention interventions was accurate and clinically applicable in a hospital setting
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 168-175
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  • Exploring the feasbility of a community-based strength training program for older people with depressive symptoms and its impact on depressive symptoms
    Year: 2006
    Journal: BMC Geriatrics
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 18
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  • Genetic and environmental influences on variation in balance performance among female twin pairs aged 21-82 years.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 164
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 246-256
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  • Patient education to prevent falls in subacute care.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Rehabilitation
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 970-979
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A pilot study of falls risk and vestibular dysfunction in older fallers presenting to hopsital Emergency Departments
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Disability and Rehabilitation
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 499-506
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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  • Activities-specific and balance confidence (ABC) scale
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 197
    Publisher: Australian Physiotherapy Association(St Kilda)
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  • Falls and injury prevention should be part of every stroke rehabilitation plan
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical Rehabilitation
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 441-451
    Publisher: Arnold Hodder Headline(London)
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  • Falls incidence and factors associated with falling in older, community-dwelling, chronic stroke survivors (>1 year after stroke) and matched controls
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 74-81
    Publisher: Editrice Kurtis(Milan)
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  • Stand up and be counted: measuring time spent upright after hip fracture and comparison with community dwelling older people
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Physiotherapy
    Volume: 91
    Page numbers: 215-222
    Publisher: Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
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  • Tai Chi in Australia: acceptable and effective approach to improve balance in older people?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Journal on Ageing
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-13
    Publisher: Council on the Ageing(Melbourne)
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Reports

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A pilot study of falls, fear of falling, activity levels and fall prevention actions in older people with polio
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 126-131
    Publisher: Editrice Kurtis(Milan)
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  • Assessment and management of falls in older people
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 557-564
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Effectiveness of targeted falls prevention programme in subacute hospital setting: randomised controlled trial
    Year: 2004
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 328
    Page numbers: 6760
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Predisposing factors for occasional and multiple falls in older Australians who live at home
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 153-159
    Publisher: Australian Physiotherapy Association(St Kilda)
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  • Preventing falls - a combination of common sense and science
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Australian Health Consumer
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 18-19
    Publisher: Consumers' Health Forum of Australia Inc(Canberra)
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  • Validation of a falls risk assessment tool in the sub-acute hospital setting: a pilot study
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 99-108
    Publisher: Australasian Podiatry Council(Collingwood)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Changing practice in residential aged care using participatory methods
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Education for Health
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 22-31
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(Abingdon)
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  • Falls Prevention within the Australian General Practice Data Model: Methodology, Information Model and Terminology Issues
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Medical Informatics Association Journal
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Hanley and Belfus(Philadelphia)
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  • Retest reliability of dynamic balance during standing in older people after surgical treatment of hip fracture
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Physiotherapy Research International
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 93-100
    Publisher: Whurr Publishers
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Reliability and validity of a dual-task force platform assessment of balance performance: effect of age, balance impairment, and cognitive task
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 157-162
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Massachusetts)
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Reports

Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Falls
    Year: 2001
    Book: Practical guide to geriatric medicine
    Publisher: McGraw Hill Australia(Sydney)
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