Falls, a community care perspective

The Lancet

Volumn 345, Issue 8964, 1995, Pages 1549-1551

  van Weel, C ^a   Vermeulen, H ^a   van den Bosch, W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029009298     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(95)91091-3     Document Type: Article

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