Risk-factor assessment for falls: From a written checklist to the penless clinic

Age and Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 569-572

  Dyer, Christopher A E ^a   Watkins, Caroline L ^b   Gould, Catherine ^c   Rowe, Jed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^c West Heath Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Falls; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FALLING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROCOMPUTER; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHOE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOCUMENTATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICATION ERRORS; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031781956     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.5.569     Document Type: Article

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