Predicting the probability for falls in community-dwelling older adults

Physical Therapy

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 812-819

  Shumway Cook, Anne ^a   Baldwin, Margaret ^a   Polissar, Nayak L ^a   Gruber, William ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Balance; Fall prevention

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030846569     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/77.8.812     Document Type: Article

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