FRAT-UP: A web-based tool for evaluating the fall risk of people aged 65 or up living in the community

FRAT-up is a web-based tool for evaluating the fall risk of people aged 65 or up living in the community. FRAT-up is based on the assumption that a subject’s fall risk is given by the contribution of their exposure to each of the known fall-risk factors. Many scientific studies have investigated the relationship between falls and risk factors. The majority of these studies adopted statistical approaches, usually providing quantitative information such as odds ratios. FRAT-up exploits these numerical results to compute how each single factor contributes to the overall fall risk. Validation results of fall risks computed by FRAT-up show that its performance is comparable to externally validated state-of-the-art tools. A prototype is freely available through a web-based interface (http://ffrat.farseeingresearch.eu/) and further information is available through a published paper at: http://www.jmir.org/2015/2/e41/