Falls and Fractures in Patients With Alzheimer-Type Dementia

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 257, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 1492-1495

  Buchner, David M ^a   Larson, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BONE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; FRACTURES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NURSING HOMES; STATISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023272422     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1987.03390110068028     Document Type: Article

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